Infrastructure Knowledge Exchange

The document provides a guidance for planning investments by the Government. The Governments currently cherry-pick the evaluation method that suits the result they want.

We are connected to the global economy in numerous ways through the trade in goods and services, through crossborder investment, and through the movement of people and ideas.

This report examines the performance of the 14 largest container ports in the region based on two sets of criteria: operational performance and economic performance. To measure operational performance, the report benchmarks total time at port, waiting time at port, and idle time as a share of total time at berth. To measure economic performance, it benchmarks productivity and efficiency using two useful techniques: Malmquist total factor productivity decomposition and data envelopment analysis. The report identifies key drivers of port performance and examines how differences in performance across ports are related to those drivers.

To improve the infrastructure project development process, the MIWM has developed an investment program called MIRT (Multi-Year Programme for Infrastructure, Spatial Planning and Transport).

The interest generated by the role of PPP in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is considerable.

Strategy 2020, the long-term strategic framework of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for 2008–2020, identifies private sector development (PSD) and private sector operations as drivers of change in Asia and the Pacific.

The survey was conducted to guage the status of infrastructure market based on macro trends. Previously, Deloitte had conducted a survey in 2013 and interviewed a wide cross-section of infrastructure investors throughout Europe.

B&R Infrastructure Development Index Report 2018, in both English and Chinese, published by China International Contractors Association (CHINCA) in the 9th International Infrastructure Investment and Construction Forum held in Macao on June 7-8, 2018.

With a people-centred vision, the Argentine G20 Presidency placed sustainable development at the forefront of the G20 agenda in 2018, under the theme Building consensus for fair and sustainable development .

The OECD DAC Blended Finance Principles for Unlocking Commercial Finance for the SDGs aims to ensure that blended finance is deployed in the most effective way to address the financing needs for sustainable development.

The Principles of MDBs’ Strategy for Crowding-in Private Sector Finance for Growth and sustainable Development promotes effective approaches to maximize the mobilisation and catalyzation of private sector resources.

The paper “Partnering to Build a Better World: MDBs’ Common Approaches to Supporting Infrastructure Development” presents a brief description of how MDBs work with their Borrowing Member Countries (BMCs) .

APEC economies endorsed the APEC Guidebook on Quality of Infrastructure Development and Investment (Revision) .

The UNECE International PPP Centre of Excellence has as its core vision the implementation of PPP solutions to promote the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Infrastructure Financing Trends in Africa – 2017 is the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa’s (ICA’s) annual report on how financial resources are being mobilised to facilitate the development of the continent’s transport, water and sanitation, energy and ICT sectors.