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This report shows how competition policy can help African countries boost inclusive and sustainable development, the report outlines how competition policy can boost key sectors competition standards and legal/policy frameworks.
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This report was produced by an expert panel tasked with independent review of multilateral development banks’ capital adequacy frameworks. This panel was convened by the G20 to provide benchmarks to evaluate MDB capital adequacy frameworks and to enable stakeholders to develop a consistent understanding and consider potential adaptations to maximise MDBs' funding capacity.
One of the primary responsibilities of governments the world over is to provide public services to their citizens, including through infrastructure projects. However, governments are often faced with limited resources, constraining their ability to finance and deliver infrastructure on their own. Thus, it is often necessary to invite a private sector party to jointly provide the services in partnership with the public sector.
Focused on the electricity system, BloombergNEF s (BNEF s) New Energy Outlook (NEO) combines the expertise of over 65 market and technology specialists in 12 countries to provide a unique view of how the market will evolve. Each year BNEF makes a number of changes to NEO as they strive to improve the completeness and complexity of their analysis. Click on the link to BNEF s website to see the 10 key findings.
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One Planet Summit reports on how blended finance can help scale up climate and nature investments.
The New Climate Economy explores how countries at all levels of income can have better economic growth and a better climate.
This brief outlines how better crash data can be used to improve road safety
This report evaluates recent developments regarding public-private partnerships (PPPs) in Latin America.
Benchmarking Public Procurement provides comparable data on regulatory environments that affect the ability of private companies to do business with governments in 180 economies.
This benchmarking documents provides a preliminary analysis of infrastructure performance in Lesotho in four major sectors against the relevant group of comparator countries using a new World Bank international data base with objective and perception-based indicators of infrastructure performance from over 200 countries, this document outlines the deficiences in Lesotho in infrastructure.
In this report, Marsh & McLennan Insights, the Inter-American Development Bank and IDB Invest review the progress of the six largest infrastructure investment markets in the Latin American and the Caribbean region (the LAC6) in the recovery period following the Lava Jato investigation – the period from 2016 until the present. This report will evaluate private investment prospects in infrastructure based on transparency reforms and project pipeline initiatives offered by the region’s governments. The report will additionally outline a selection of key financing and risk solutions available to private investors to ensure project bankability in the region.
This study examines the potential role of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program in improving aviation in the region.
The Australian Infrastructure 2019 Audit covers transport, energy, water, telecommunications and for the first time social infrastructure, and looks at the major challenges and opportunities facing Australia s infrastructure over the next 15 years and beyond. They have presented their findings in terms that matter to users, by focusing on outcomes for them. The hope is that this enhanced focus on users, and the role infrastructure can play in improving their quality of life, helps to drive better decisions that are rooted in the long-term interests of Australians.
This publication discusses issues that characterise PPPs from the project selection stage until after the contract is signed.
This publication identifies specific infrastructure and utility service reform measures that can be taken to advance the interests of the poor.
Through maps, charts and images, the Atlas combines scientifically reliable data sources to provide a complete view of Africa’s energy needs, resources and opportunities.
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the current technology landscape for digital identification, including strengths and weaknesses of the different technology options in different countries.
This study reviews African Project Preparation Facilities, providing recommendations for their enhancement.
This book questions the premise that Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) have a performance advantage over traditionally procured projects. It examines novel research comparing the differences in performance between PPP and traditionally procured infrastructure projects and thoughtfully scrutinises the supposed advantages of PPPs.
