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- 2021
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This Guide to Public-Private Partnerships is published by the European PPP Expertise Centre (EPEC), a Division of the European Investment Bank (EIB). It provides a high-level framework to guide the public-private partnership (PPP) process, and it identifies other authoritative PPP guidance materials, available either online or in print publications, from a wide variety of sources.
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European PPP Expertise Centre (EPEC)
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- 2021
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The last year saw a surge of climate change impacts across the globe, ranging from rising sea levels to uncontrolled wildfires. Developing countries and emerging economies are especially vulnerable to these impacts, partly because they lack the resources and capacity to address them—especially when the COVID-19 pandemic is ravaging economies worldwide. PPIAF’s role in addressing the impacts of climate change on infrastructure development is in line with the World Bank’s g...
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Steer – Gandour Consultores
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- 2020
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- 2021
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This study conducts an exploratory review of the literature on infrastructure and gender to discuss best practices and lessons learned for mainstreaming gender and identify gender gaps. The scope of this study is limited to gender mainstreaming in upstream infrastructure planning and implementation. The review goes beyond publications produced by MDBs and other multilateral institutions to include academic literature on gender & politics. This literature is particul...
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World Bank Group (WBG)
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- 2021
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This World Bank report was commissioned to inform this past weekend’s G20 conversations. It underlines that lack of maintenance of infrastructure assets has real costs and repercussions on people, firms, and economic systems. Moreover, regular maintenance is an essential contributor to infrastructure resilience as countries face the impacts of climate change. We emphasize that more spending alone is insufficient, unless accompanied by new approaches in planning, costing, and deliveri...
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World Bank Group (WBG)
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- 2021
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Assessing Operational PPP Portfolios
The COVID-19 pandemic will continue to impact infrastructure projects around the globe in all sectors as supply chains are disrupted, customer demand falls, and health regulations force a change in the way business is conducted. Infrastructure projects delivered through public-private partnerships (PPPs) make them more challenging to deal with because of long-term contractual commitments made between counterparties, including third-party lenders and investors.
This note discusses k...
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PPIAF,World Bank Group (WBG)
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- 2021
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Assessing Operational PPP Portfolios
The COVID-19 pandemic will continue to impact infrastructure projects around the globe in all sectors as supply chains are disrupted, customer demand falls, and health regulations force a change in the way business is conducted. Infrastructure projects delivered through public-private partnerships (PPPs) make them more challenging to deal with because of long-term contractual commitments made between counterparties, including third-party lenders and investors.
This note discusses k...
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PPIAF,World Bank Group (WBG)
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- 2020
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Public-Private Partnerships cover a wide range of contractual arrangements between public authorities and private entities contributing to the private financing of public infrastructure in the broad sense. PPPs are an important tool to meet national infrastructure needs and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Such contractual arrangements, however, are complex and require strong and consistent national policies to attract investment and ensure the protection of the public interest. ...
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United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)
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PPP Legal Framework
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- 2020
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Public-Private Partnerships cover a wide range of contractual arrangements between public authorities and private entities contributing to the private financing of public infrastructure in the broad sense. PPPs are an important tool to meet national infrastructure needs and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Such contractual arrangements, however, are complex and require strong and consistent national policies to attract investment and ensure the protection of the public interest. ...
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United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)
Topic
PPP Legal Framework
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- 2020
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- 2705
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Case studies, technical specifications, and business models
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PPIAF,World Bank Group (WBG)
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- 2018
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- 2020
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There is a global need to better understand the inner workings of trucking markets and how these relate to performance. Despite the critical role that trucking plays as a dominant mode in most countries’ freight transport task, and as a key determinant of both private logistics costs and economic externalities, remain insufficiently understood and under-studied. This report starts from the basic definition of actors as comprising trucking service providers on the supply side, shipper...
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- 2020
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India Smart Grid Forum
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- 2020
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For over 20 years, PPIAF and its partners, particularly governments, donors, and international development institutions, have worked to build the capacity, regulatory, and institutional framework necessary to stimulate private sector participation (PSP) in infrastructure. PPIAF’s work helps its clients work with the private sector to continue providing financing and operating infrastructure services when systems and economies are under unprecedented strain. The pandemic is not the on...
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- 2020
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Reference Paper
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. It serves as a background and detailed reference for the “Technical Guidance Note on Assessing the Welfare and Distributional Impacts of Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure Interventions.”
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World Bank Group (WBG)
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- 2020
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This Note introduces key evaluation approaches and methods that can produce credible evidence about the welfare and distributional impacts of infrastructure interventions. Evaluating both types of impact is crucial because the ultimate objective of public policy is to improve the well-being of the population, and particularly that of the poorest and the most vulnerable in society. The Note focuses on infrastructure because across the developing world, inadequate infrastructure remains a ma...
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World Bank Group (WBG)
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- 2019
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Principles and Implementation Manual
Countries exiting conflict and fragility face many urgent priorities and almost invariably suffer from substantial infrastructure deficits. There is typically very little infrastructure investment during periods of fragility and conflict, and existing installations are often damaged or destroyed. The purpose of this manual is to contribute to improvements in the quality of infrastructure regulation. It does so by identifying key principles for the governance of infrastructure regulators an...
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World Bank Group (WBG)
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- 2020
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This Property Tax Diagnostic Manual provides guidance on how to analyze and assess immovable property tax systems, diagnose the strengths and weaknesses of such systems, and develop a property tax intervention strategy where needed. Its higher objective is to support increasingly fair and stable tax systems in low- and middle-income countries, with significant potential for sustainable improvements in achieving key revenue, equity, and efficiency objectives. This Manual focuses specificall...
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World Bank Group (WBG)
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- 2020
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Benchmarking Infrastructure Development 2020
Benchmarking Infrastructure Development 2020 builds on the success of the Procuring Infrastructure PPPs 2018, which focused specifically on PPPs. It updates the assessment for PPPs in 140 economies and expands its thematic coverage to include the assessment of TPIs in 40 pilot economies.
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World Bank Group (WBG)
Topic
PPP Institutional Framework,Procurement,PPP Units,PPP Legal Framework
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- 2020
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This report Public-Private Partnerships in Land Administration: Analytical and Operational Frameworks was developed to address knowledge gaps, advance the thinking on how PPPs can be implemented in land administration with appropriate risk mitigation, and explore how the World Bank and other development partners may engage in financing and building capacity in land administration. With its analytical assessments and operational tools, the report intends to support governments (land agencie...
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PPIAF,World Bank Group (WBG),Global Partnership for Results-Based Approaches (GPRBA)
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PPP Policy,Governance
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- 2020
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ILF Consulting Engineers
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- 2020
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ILF Consulting Engineers
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- 2020
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ILF Consulting Engineers
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- 2020
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CASE STUDIES
One of the most common, but least written about, public policy instruments implemented by governments to encourage private finance has been the establishment of Public Infrastructure Funds (PIFs). At this point, readers may ask "what are PIFs?" One of the benefits of PIFs is that they are unique, adapted to meet specific country contexts, but conversely this can make them hard to accurately define. Put simply, they are a specific type of infrastructure financing fund that uses pu...
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PPIAF,Inter-American Development Bank (IDB),World Bank Group (WBG)
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Multi-sector (i.e. for infrastructure in general)