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The paper discusses strategies and options to address the challenges that are plaguing the water resources sector.
This report provides us with a resource with how Armenia improved its water supply and sanitation infrastructure and services through PPPs and various financing methods.
The Gateway Review process aims to deliver a peer review of projects at critical stages in their lifecycle, to provide assurance that they can progress successfully to the next stage.
This report outlines benchmarking techniques, in order to improve the effectiveness of monitoring and evaluation in policy design
This publication identifies specific infrastructure and utility service reform measures that can be taken to advance the interests of the poor.
This document discusses how science-based indicators of vulnerability to climate change and of adaptability can inform the prioritization of adaptation assistance from a global adaptation fund.
This report looks into the relation between the establishment of a regulatory agency and the performance of the electricity sector using regression techniques using a dataset of 220 electric utilities.
The International Benchmarking Network for Water and Sanitation Utilities (IBNET) blue book creates a baseline and, at the same time, offers a global vision of the state of the sector in developing countries.
This guidance note aims to explain key sector features of urban water supply and identify entry points for mapping governance risks.
This publication outlines the current efforts of the Asian Development Bank to promote sustainable infrastructure in Asia and the Pacific, looking at how lives can be improved with regards to infrastructure in the energy, transport, water & waste, communcations technology areas.
This book combines thematic and country studies, while breaking new ground in quantifying infrastructure's impact on Asia's trade costs.
This report outlines lessons from two river basins in India, while arguing how planning for hydropower development needs to evolve from a project-based engineering approach to a more holistic one.
This paper analyses the outcomes from dynamic pricing of a utility on its profits, in the context of the utility facing competitive fringe, short-run network adjustment costs, theft of service, and the threat of a retaliatory regulatory review.
This document provides advice related to fluvial flood risk management that addresses strategic planning, environmentally sensitive design and the implementation of works.
Canada and British Columbia agree on the need for high-quality, modern public infrastructure that contributes to long-term economic growth, a clean environment and strong communities.
The Capital Asset Management Framework describes government objectives and policies for planning and managing publicly-funded capital assets such as schools, hospitals and highways.
This paper considers three hydropower projects, these are in India, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. The paper looks into the impact of global climate change on these hydropower projects using an autoregressive model on a hydrological series, since hydropower is among the most vulnerable industries to changes in global and regional climate.
This paper uses a randomized controlled trial of a matching grant program for firms in the Republic of Yemen to demonstrate the feasibility of conducting experiments with well-designed programs, and to measure whether firms carry out additional innovation that they otherwise would not do.
The BFI Financial Model has been designed to appraise the affordability of any infrastructure project proposal submitted to the BFI.