At the start of 2020, COVID-19 spread across the world at an unyielding pace. What began as global jitters has evolved into unprecedented disturbances in the economy, health systems and daily life. In Asia and the Pacific, the impacts of the pandemic have reverberated among its population of more than 4 billion and in its network of vital supply chains. In the face of such challenges, the region must respond quickly and collectively to save lives and build resilience against future pandemi...

Decades of high economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region have transformed its socioeconomic landscape – lifting a billion people out of extreme poverty in the past two decades and raising living standards for even greater numbers. However, such growth has been accompanied by growing inequality of income and opportunity and is beginning to breach planetary limits, thus endangering the well-being of future generations. Yet, the Asia-Pacific region is not on track to achieve any ...

Every financial system has faced or will face a crisis at some point. But even in the absence of a crisis, the extraordinary growth in credit over the last two decades has resulted in an increase of non-performing loans (NPLs), which are an unavoidable by-product of lending. This can put economies at risk. When not addressed, distressed assets can grow to reach critical thresholds that can slow down, or even prevent, economic recovery and increase unemployment, creating a vicious circle th...

The Private Participation in Infrastructure Database is a product of the World Bank Group’s Infrastructure, PPPs and Guarantees team. Its purpose is to identify and disseminate information on private participation in infrastructure projects in low- and middle-income countries. The database highlights the contractual arrangements used to attract private investment, the sources and destination of investment flows, and information on the main investors. The site currently provides infor...

The Private Participation in Infrastructure Database is a product of the World Bank Group’s Infrastructure, PPPs & Guarantees team. Its purpose is to identify and disseminate information on private participation in infrastructure projects in low- and middle-income countries. The database highlights the contractual arrangements used to attract private investment, the sources and destination of investment flows, and information on the main investors. The site currently offers infor...

The Private Participation in Infrastructure Database is a product of the World Bank Group’s Infrastructure, PPPs and Guarantees team. Its purpose is to identify and disseminate information on private participation in infrastructure projects in low- and middle-income countries. The database highlights the contractual arrangements used to attract private investment, the sources and destination of investment flows, and information on the main investors. The site currently provides infor...

Nature-based Solutions (NbS) can be used as a cost effective way to build infrastructure resilience in response to a changing climate, while also delivering a range of other societal benefits. Yet, many business aren’t aware of these benefits, and implementation of NbS by the private sector (including businesses that plan, design, construct and fund infrastructure) has been limited in Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC). As a region where infrastructure investments are required du...

IFC’s Global Private Healthcare Conference took place in March 2019, with a primary aim to spark discussion and drive action around the private health sector and its role in meeting critical challenges in emerging markets. The theme of the 2019 conference was Disrupting the Present, Building the Future—Embracing Innovation to Deliver Results. Alongside this conference, invited thought leaders, healthcare operators and service providers, government representatives, entrepreneurs...

IFC’s Global Private Healthcare Conference took place in March 2019, with a primary aim to spark discussion and drive action around the private health sector and its role in meeting critical challenges in emerging markets. The theme of the 2019 conference was Disrupting the Present, Building the Future—Embracing Innovation to Deliver Results. Alongside the main conference sessions, invited health care thought leaders, policy experts, investors, and industry representatives from...

Private equity (PE) remains an underutilised source of funding for firms in the EBRD regions. This EBRD Impact Brief explores how private equity can help companies prosper. It reports on a detailed study of both textual and financial data from more than 170 private equity funds that the EBRD invested in over a period of 25 years.1 The findings show that PE funds follow a rich set of strategies to create value during the life of a deal. These strategies typically increase operational effici...

The main objectives of this paper are to present policymakers an insight on infrastructure financing challenges, opportunities and modalities in Asian Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) as well as to make specific policy recommendations to address the aforementioned challenges. The paper will also benefit, among others, international development partners, foreign investors, private sector, and academic communities in these countries.

I n the last few years, IFC has prioritized an approach to creating bankable private sector infrastructure opportunities that we call “Scaling”—focusing not on single asset development, but on a holistic approach that creates a pipeline of infrastructure projects. The essence of the Scaling approach is to develop a robust public-private partnership (PPP) model for a single deal and then replicate it. This spreads costs, enhances impact, and encourages programmat...

In the last few years, IFC has prioritized an approach to creating bankable private sector infrastructure opportunities that we call “Scaling”—focusing not on single asset development, but on a holistic approach that creates a pipeline of infrastructure projects. The essence of the Scaling approach is to develop a robust public-private partnership (PPP) model for a single deal and then replicate it. This spreads costs, enhances impact, and encourages programmati...

The use of Public Private Partnerships (PPP) as the vehicle to procure large-scale social and physical infrastructure projects is becoming increasingly deployed around the globe. This international study evaluated the use of PPP procurement in the UK, Australia and China as three of the most mature and rapidly developing users of the PPP procurement route. It focused on the ways of improving digitalisation in PPP procurement with the use of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and its impa...

The set of materials contained in this toolkit includes a summary of two general frameworks, ten TMA guiding sheets, and eight case studies to discuss real-world examples of how transformational change can inform project design.

This Report is a result of the G20 IWG Survey on PPP development in G20 countries. The Survey aimed to collect country experiences on various aspects of infrastructure policy and public-private partnership in a homogenous manner to allow for cross-country analysis and mapping of policy activities. Examples of possible measures for policy-making are proposed for information only without aiming to determine the best experience. The report has been prepared by the National PPP Devel...

Kazakhstan has put in place a well-structured legal and institutional framework for preparing Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) at both the national and regional levels. The government has prioritised PPPs as a delivery mode for both economic and social infrastructure. The central emphasis on PPPs had a strong impact at the regional level with a large number of relatively small projects signed in the past years. At the national level the impact has been modest mostly due to financing chal...

The Future of Asian and Pacific Cities report 2019 is an important resource to explore critical and emerging policy opportunities to realize urban sustainability for the Asian and Pacific region. The report informs policies and actions from a sustainable development perspective, putting cities at the centre of development policy debates. The report identifies future policy pathways for urban decision makers and stakeholders to reimagine the built and natural environments in Asian and Pacif...

IFC’s Global Private Health Care Conference took place in March 2019, with a primary aim to spark discussion and drive action around the private health sector and its role in meeting critical challenges in emerging markets. The theme of the 2019 conference was Disrupting the Present, Building the Future – Embracing Innovation to Deliver Results. Alongside the main conference sessions, invited policy experts, funders, innovators, representatives of the public sector and industry...

Resource recovery from wastewater facilities in the form of energy, reusable water, biosolids, and other resources, such as nutrients, represents an economic and financial benefit that contributes to the sustainability of water supply and sanitation systems and the water utilities operating them. Resource recovery can transform sanitation from a costly service to one that is self-sustaining and adds value to the economy. Indeed, if financial returns can cover operation and maintenance cost...

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have emerged as a new organizational form to provide public infrastructure over the last 30 years. Governments find them attractive because PPPs can be used to avoid fiscal check-and-balances and increase spending. At the same time, PPPs can lead to important efficiency gains, especially for transportation infrastructure. These gains include better maintenance, reduced bureaucratic costs, and filtering white elephants. For these gains to materialize, it i...

This report outlines and explains a method for estimating the rate of return that is required by equity investors in PPP contracts in emerging markets. It is designed for policymakers, practitioners, and others involved in quantitative financial analysis (including budget appraisals, value for money analyses, and the negotiation of contract prices) in these markets.