Publications

The paper applies indicator calculations to three case studies of proposed bypass roads in Japan to evaluate their resilience.

The Investor Leadership Network created this playbook to help institutional investors better assess and incorporate inclusion into portfolios. It provides the business case for inclusion, fundamental and advanced inclusion metrics, and case studies of the metrics being used.

The Inclusive Design Standards bring together what LLDC consider the best of existing good practice guidance and consolidate this in a single benchmarking document to be used as a tool by design teams. This second edition of the London Legacy Development Corporation s (LLDC s) Inclusive Design Standards (IDS), originally published in March 2013, is evidence of the positive impact and continued legacy created by the enormous success of the Olympic and Paralympic Games held in London back in the summer of 2012.

This report provides a comprehensive overview of digital transformation in Russia, including chapters on the general digital economy in Russia, the global best practice for enhancing digital platforms in Russa and boosting digital innovation.

This is a study in 22 low- and middle-income countries in Asia revealing a strong positive relationship between social protection spending and health outcomes.

This note discusses competition and consumer choice in the healthcare sector.

The objective of the study is to strengthen capacity of geohazard disaster resilience of federal highway infrastructure in Brazil through reviewing disaster risk management (DRM) capacity for federal road infrastructure and case studies of applying innovative methodologies for assessing disaster risk and evaluating economic benefits of resilience countermeasures.

The UNECE International PPP Centre of Excellence has as its core vision the implementation of PPP solutions to promote the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This document provides suggestions on how to address typical challenges faced in the implementation of Facilities Management (FM) through PPPs with a focus on emerging countries with limited experience of the PPP model.

We are connected to the global economy in numerous ways through the trade in goods and services, through crossborder investment, and through the movement of people and ideas.

To increase its global competitiveness, Brazil created an ambitious strategy to attract more private investment in its infrastructure. A partnership with the Global Infrastructure Hub helped Brazil implement and realise this strategy.

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.

This paper exploits variations in the timing of telecommunications reforms across Europe to analyze the relationship between the rise of alternative work arrangements and the emergence of the Internet, which sectors are most impacted by the internet is also reviewed.

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.