Publications

This article to the debate on the spatial allocation of infrastructure investments by examining where these investments generate the highest economic return (‘spatial efficiency’), and identifying trade-offs when infrastructure coverage is made more equitable across regions (‘spatial equity’).

The IMF has compiled a suite of analysis, research, diagnostic tools, country reports, data sets, and other resources on the importance of public investment as a catalyst for economic growth.

The aim of this exercise is to better understand the landscape by cataloguing and mapping what already exists, acknowledging that the list will never be exhaustive.

The paper analyses the impact of infrastructure on trade, suggesting that potential gains are large and increase with the quality of infrastructure of trading partners.

This brief outlines how China's transport sector can contribute to carbon reduction

This paper provides a review of the literature connecting housing, housing finance and the broader economy. It draws together work in these areas that are seldom part of the mainstream literature of economic development.

This paper establishes a general equilibrium trade model and adopts the “market access” approach to measure the impact of the high-speed railway (HSR) network on the economic growth.

The Asian Journal Special Issue on High-Speed Rail (HSR) Services in Asia provides an overview of the impacts of HSR infrastructure in Asia and explains how investment in HSR brings significant socio-economic changes.

This guide builds on Budget 2011 by providing federal organizations with P3 screening and value for money considerations.

These guidelines, circulated by the MoF in November 2017, provide the necessary conditions to be satisfied by a PPP project in order to be included in the Project Management Database of the National PPP Integrated Information Platform.

These guidelines, circulated by the MoF in September 2016, task the finance departments at all levels of government with arranging PPP project preparation, budgetary funding, procurement, budgetary expenditures and revenues, and performance management etc.

These guidelines, circulated by the MoF in December 2015, guide the project implementing agencies in the preparation of PPP VfM evaluations, and assist the finance departments at various levels in reviewing the PPP VfM evaluations in a well-regulated and orderly way.

The purpose of these guidelines is to enhance the efficiency of fiscal spending by reasonably adjusting and managing, by each project phase, total project costs of large projects funded with the national budget.

The purpose of the Guidelines is to establish the types of socioeconomic evaluations that will be applicable to the investment programs and projects considered by the dependencies and entities of the Federal Public Administration.

The purpose of the Guidelines is to establish the types of socioeconomic evaluations that will be applicable to the investment programs and projects considered by the dependencies and entities of the Federal Public Administration.

The guidelines and procedure for the formulation of the 2017-2022 Public Investment Program (PIP) provides a framework and process for the formulation of the PIP.

The aim of this guidebook is to compile information on PPP frameworks in APEC member economies into a single information as a facilitatory tool for investment.

The purpose of the Guide to Procurement (the Guide) is to inform the Promoters of a project whose contracts are financed in whole or in part by the European Investment Bank.

The Guide defines, inter alia, the scope of application, the definition and basic principles of social responsibility, and provides specific requirements on social responsibility management.