The second International Forum of Public-Private Partnerships was held in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil between 18th - 20th October, attended by GI Hub staff Daniel Fedson, Director, Cleyton Barros, Principal Policy Advisor and Jack Handford, Principal Advisor.
The Global Infrastructure Hub’s Breakfast, in partnership with the World Economic Forum, took place in Washington D.C. yesterday. Infrastructure leaders and professionals
World leaders gathering at the UN General Assembly in September 2015 adopted a much-heralded new set of development goals with the worthy aims of lifting communities across the globe out of poverty and improving lives, but 18 months later, new research from the Global Infrastructure Hub has revealed that on current investment trends we will fail, by a wide margin, to meet the electricity and water goals by 2030.
The GI Hub is today launching its new report, Global Infrastructure Outlook, an analysis with Oxford Economics of infrastructure investment needs across 50 countries and 7 sectors to 2040.
The GI Hub hosted a global webinar on risk allocation in PPPs with Norton Rose Fulbright and IPFA last week. The webinar was extremely well attended and saw active participation from public sector and private sector participants from around the world.
At their recent Annual Meetings in Washington, World Bank and International Monetary Fund leaders discussed some key global issues; namely the global economic outlook and how to feed a growing global population.
The global infrastructure investment gap has been estimated at $15 trillion in the latest report from GI Hub, Global Infrastructure Outlook. Across the 50 countries that make up the
Ensuring disadvantaged communities have access to adequate infrastructure is a key goal of a new Hub tool, writes Morag Baird, Senior Manager, Leading Practices and Policy, GI Hub.
The Global Infrastructure Hub has urged Multilateral Development Banks to become "joined-up" in their approach to promoting new infrastructure in emerging countries.