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Our co-authored article with the Wilson Center explains how emerging and developing economies can create an enabling environment for private investment by de-risking at the country level
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Infrastructure investment undoubtedly has a strong impact on economic growth and development.
Read our story on the importance of leveraging blended finance to drive private investment in sustainable infrastructure that’s featured in the July/August 2022 issue of InfraInvestor.
The GI Hub began examining the regulatory capital treatment of infrastructure investments in 2019, as part of our initiative to address barriers to the establishment and advancement of infrastructure as an asset class
Scaling up existing multilateral solutions and developing new ones are key to increasing much-needed private investment in infrastructure in emerging and developing markets. In her latest article, our CEO, Marie Lam-Frendo shares her thoughts on de-risking instruments as one solution.
The GI Hub attended the third G20 Infrastructure Working Group (IWG) meeting under the Indian G20 Presidency, held 26–28 June in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand.
This recently updated directory of national and subnational project pipelines in G20 countries enables governments and industries track projects and assemble market analyses
To seize the opportunities of this critical moment and increase private investment in infrastructure LMICs can implement a series of actions. The creation of a regulatory and institutional framework which promotes private investment or the development of solid project pipelines.
The last decade has seen a growing investor appetite toward sustainable infrastructure investments. However, there are challenges to accelerating these investments at the speed and scale needed. In this article we explore two projects - the Tibar Bay Port in Timor-Leste and the Clean Ganga Program in India - that illustrate how these challenges can be overcome.
This paper from EDHECinfra explores how institutional investors should incorporate ESG elements into the financial management of their portfolios.
Towards a Scientific Approach to ESG for Infrastructure Investors
Private infrastructure investment has been stagnant for eight years running, however the number of transactions has been trending up since 2016. This is mainly due to a tripling in the number of solar photovoltaic projects. Unfortunately, their average transaction size is the lowest among all infrastructure sector projects so does not translate to an increase in the total private investment amount.
The number of primary private infrastructure transactions increased by 18% in 2022, the strongest annual growth since 2017, largely driven by strong investor appetite for projects supporting the clean energy transition. However, growth was mostly being driven by high-income countries in North America and Western Europe, with private investment activity in middle- and low-income countries seeing a lot less momentum with volumes on par with pre-COVID levels.
Recently, the GI Hub coordinated a discussion of asset recycling as part of a presentation to fellows of the ASEAN Sustainable Leadership in Infrastructure Program.
The World Bank and the Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub) are pleased to announce that the GI Hub will soon be joining The World Bank's Infrastructure Practice Group as an associated trust fund to the Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF)
The GI Hub has formed a strategic partnership with the Sustainable Markets Initiative Blended Finance Task Force, to identify solutions that scale private investment and mobilise capital to accelerate the transition to net zero.
The Blue Dot Network aims to help mobilise private sector investment by identifying and encouraging market-driven, transparent, and sustainable infrastructure projects. It establishes a voluntary, private-sector focused, government-supported project-level certification that aligns with the G20 Principles for Quality Infrastructure Investment, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Performance Standards, the Equator Principles, the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, and the OECD Recommendation on the Governance of Infrastructure.
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In a new research publication from the EDHEC Infrastructure & Private Assets Research Institute, entitled "Low Tide, Benchmarking Risks in Infrastructure Investments: What the data showed about Thames Water," we ask what investors in Thames Water in the UK would have learned about the risk of their investment and its likely market value had they compared its characteristics to market and peer group data.
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.
This report of the Independent Expert Group (IEG) of the G20 recommends a triple agenda of reforms to multilateral development banks (MDBs).
Regional private investment in infrastructure has seen divergent trends in the post-COVID era, with Western Europe and North America emerging as the two strongest performers, followed by Latin America. Meanwhile Asia, while maintaining relatively stable investment as a share of regional GDP, has experienced the sharpest decline in its share of global private investment in infrastructure, as Western Europe and North America expand their shares. Other regions have seen weaker investment in the post-COVID era (Africa, Oceania, Middle East), or remained stagnant (Eastern Europe).
