Lack of access to reliable and affordable electricity and inadequate road infrastructure, together with underdeveloped digital connectivity, constitute three binding constraints to economic growth in Liberia...
This reference paper aims to help World Bank Group (WBG) teams assess the welfare and distributional impacts of private sector participation in interventions in infrastructure sectors. The proposed theory...
Global evidence suggests better infrastructure governance results in more efficient spending and better growth outcomes at the national and subnational levels of government. Several studies (International...
The PPI Database is comprised of information on more than 8,700 infrastructure projects with private participation, dating from 1984 to 2016. This report presents the latest data from 2016, and analyzes...
There are significant economic gains to be realized if the East Africa sub region improves the overall integration of its markets. But infrastructure development that links markets across countries faces...
In this issue: trends: 10 years of private-sector participation in water; interview: Mozambique's 'industry behind the tap'; and feature: irrigating Brazil's semi-arid northeast.
The private sector exits only a fraction of private infrastructure projects before the contract ends. Yet such cancellations can have a sustained impact on a country's program of public-private partnerships...
India has seen rapid growth in recent years in its program of infrastructure public-private partnerships (PPPs). Despite the surge in demand for finance, local financial markets coped well over the period...
India has had the most success attracting more private investment in infrastructure in 2006 than any other developing country. Long-standing policies in most other South Asian countries are beginning to...
As governments turn to the private sector to provide services once delivered by the public sector, they must learn new skills. An increasingly common way to provide the new capacities needed is to establish...
This report concentrate on projects where private investment has been made, and where the government is either the purchaser of services under the project, or where it provides a financial contribution...
This paper reviews the common approaches adopted by regulators to the inclusion and valuation of investment in the regulatory asset base and the allocation of costs of investment between different users...
This note provides guidance to World Bank Group staff on assessing the suitability of available options for public-private roles in the provision and financing of water supply and sanitation, and the main...
This paper provides guidance to Bank Staff on assessing the suitability of available options for public and private roles in the financing and provision of electricity, and the main steps which staff should...
This report analyzes the present status of infrastructure services in Bangladesh, reviews the limited progress achieved in addressing key sectoral constraints, and proposes reforms. In particular, it identifies...
Governments have long recognized the vital role that modern infrastructure services play in economic growth and poverty alleviation. For much of the post-Second World War period, most governments entrusted...
In 1998 the government of Guatemala privatized the two companies responsible for distributing electricity in rural areas. The new owner, Union Fenosa, was obliged to implement an ambitious five-year rural...