Infrastructure Knowledge Exchange

This paper reviews the current status of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) intervention on PPP in Brazil, including a stakeholder survey on the performance of the Brazilian PPP program.

This page discusses the need for legal reform to enhance the PPP environment in EBRD regions.

This report sets out several of the recent advances, and suggests the most promising approaches, to the quantification and valuation of some of the wider economic benefits that flow from transport-related development.

The OECD conducted a survey highlighting 10 governance challenges that countries face which includes promoting strategic planning across many divisions of government, managing threats to integrity, ensuring good regulatory design, ensuring an integrative consultation process, and ensuring value-for-money and affordability

This toolkit is designed to help decision makers and practitioners in states and municipal governments who are concerned with urban transport development in medium-sized cities in India.

This paper proposes the adoption of advanced asset management practices that could help water and wastewater utility operators to improve their competitiveness and become more sustainable in operational terms.

The paper looks at the potential and preconditions for introducing or expanding competition for the provision of municipal waste management services by mobilising and engaging the private sector.

This document provides advice related to fluvial flood risk management that addresses strategic planning, environmentally sensitive design and the implementation of works.

The objective of the report and the accompanying index is not simply to rank countries, but to use score movements as a benchmark from which to investigate trends, identify successful PPP performers, and focus on the approaches that can facilitate a better understanding of common challenges and best-practice standards.

The report illustartes the challenges and gaps in infrastructure provision in Africa and the benefits from improved urban and rural infrastructure. It also discusses funding and financing and the role of the AfDB in infrastructure.

This document provides a set of guidelines and templates for the assessment of governance in the water sector.

This study reviews African Project Preparation Facilities, providing recommendations for their enhancement.

The report discusses forms of intervention and trade-offs, enabling factors, and evidence from case studies and stakeholder consultations in the areas of water, agriculture and energy. The report includes recommendations for a possible roadmap and funding options.

This paper first identifies the long-term risks associated with land sale, second the paper proposes the land trust or land lease for the development of infrastructure investment and industrialization purposes.

This publication discusses how the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Program (CAREC) can enhance trade by addressing key challenges, including poor market access, limited economic diversification, and weak institutions for trade.

This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the issues, policies, and political economy of infrastructure investment, and a review of empirical literature of the relationship between growth and infrastructure within Asia.

This book considers modern approaches to dealing with issues of access to water at the basin scale, particularly through the allocation of water among administrative regions.

This report presents case studies on successful Asian water utilities.

This document outlines the strategy for Central Asia it envisions rail transport to become a mode of choice for trade: quick, efficient, accessible, and easy to use throughout Central Asia.

This publication examines the effective regulation and governance practices of the pharmaceutical sector in the Greater Mekong Subregion.