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In this article, the authors explore the successes and failures of the built environment’s digital transformation to date, why the Smart City concept is necessary but not sufficient and 3 steps for achieving the Adaptive City of the future – one which works for everyone.
This report provides an analytical framework to understand the fundamental institutions of good telecommunications regulation and analyzes the governance of telecommunications in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Tel Aviv is Israel’s second-most populous city and its main business, technological, and cultural center. Its population has grown at 2% per year; Israeli population growth is ten times the OECD average.
This report provides a view on the Chongqing area and argues three dimensions of connectivity can be improved: physical (infrastructure) connectivity, digital connectivity, and economic integration with nearby areas, the report then provides a strategy on how to carry this out.
Low-cost, rapid tech solution for refugee camps and global urbanisation takes home InfraChallenge 2020
An summary of the key takeaways of G20 and World Bank-IMF Annual Meetings in Marrakech in October 2023.
The development of credit ratings for loans in emerging countries is critical for accessing capital markets
The African Development Bank (AfDB) is mandated to drive social and economic development in Africa through multiple project types including infrastructure
Learn how the transition pathways for sustainable infrastructure link long-term sustainability goals with infrastructure plans.
The Navigator – a web-based platform – helps project teams, public authorities and financiers to find the right sustainable infrastructure tool from amongst 50+ rating systems, high-level principles and guidelines.
sustainABLE is a free online platform modelled on research jointly published by UNOPS and the University of Oxford-led Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium. The extensive research explored the critical role of infrastructure in achieving the SDGs. The tool aims to advance the SDGs by promoting practical measures that encourage project sustainability across a broad range of sectors.
This articlehighlights the process and lessons learned from the Vulnerability Assessment and Climate Resilient Road Strategy of the Samoan road network, and outlines a replicable approach for small island nations with acute capacity challenges that seek to balance analytical rigor with the need for practicality.
The ability of MDBs to maintain their central role in sustainable development in developing countries hinges on the banks’ ability to increase investing capacity and meet the needs of those countries.
The study provides a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the employment impact EIB projects in four Mediterranean partner countries.
This report presents the findings of the analysis of unit costs and cost overruns of road infrastructure projects in Africa.
Presents the findings of a desktop research study of standard public-private partnership (PPP) contracts and contractual principles from economies with well-developed PPP programs and more.
This paper, prepared as a sectoral note for the Lifelines report on infrastructure resilience, investigates the vulnerability of the power system to natural hazards and climate change, and provides recommendations to increase its resilience.
This publication examines the effective regulation and governance practices of the pharmaceutical sector in the Greater Mekong Subregion.
This report of the Independent Expert Group (IEG) of the G20 recommends a triple agenda of reforms to multilateral development banks (MDBs).