Publications

Between September and October 2018, we gathered the views of 118 power and utility company executives from over 100 companies and 56 different countries or territories in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa.

The Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks Climate Finance is an annual report that makes public the MDB climate finance figures, with explanation of the methodologies for tracking this finance.

In 2021, the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors asked the G20's Sustainable Finance Working Group (SFWG) to develop a multi-year G20 Sustainable Finance Roadmap identifying the G20’s sustainable finance priorities, and to work on specific priority areas. This report characterises challenges, reviews existing practices, and proposes a set of recommendations to progress in the priority areas.

This PPP checklist is an extension of the initial framework.

The Framework provides systematic structure for proactively disclosing information pertaining to PPP Projects.

This report outlines the guidance and recommendations concerning the reform proposals of state owned enterprises operating in the field of water supply and urban sanitation as well as providing guidance/recommendations concerning economic management options for service providers in Vietnam.

The Toolkit is intended to provide African countries, in summary form, with an overview of the experience to date with railway concessioning in Sub-Saharan Africa.

This report addresses the critical question: how can the public and private sectors build successful partnerships?

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.

This study examines how institutional change affects public-private partnership (PPP) market maturity.

The first edition of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Monitor tracks the development of the PPP business environment as well as the challenges of doing PPPs in nine of the ADB’s developing member countries (DMCs).

This report primarily focuses on the lessons of International Finance Institutions experience in three areas.

We reviewed existing literature, conducted case studies and interviews, and found that the smart cities context has transformed traditional ITS into “smart mobility” with three major characteristics: people-centric, data-driven, and powered by bottom-up innovations.

This note provides examples of the synergies and trade-offs a policy-maker should consider and manage in order to achieve sustainable mobility

This report argues that development finance has largely been directed towards centralized systems of wastewater management this has resulted in large populations being excluded from proper wastewater collection and treatment services whereas spillover effects of proper sanitation, which include an increase in property tax revenues, can help to offset the costs of fecal sludge management.

This note seeks to identify a research agenda for addressing the main gaps in information for understanding the drivers and impediments of long-term investment and related financing.

This paper explains hard and soft barriers to trade in South Asia by analyzing transport links and trade facilitation issues.

This publication provides examples of how the ADB supported communities in the Shanxi province and met the rising challenges in water security, food production, and climate issues.