For this year s edition, we reached out to more than 10,000 people in 10 major global cities to ask about their everyday experiences with infrastructure services. How satisfied and safe do they feel with their roads and bridges, rail services and utilities? How engaged are they in the decision-making processes for new projects that can improve lifestyles and drive new economic growth?
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.
With a people-centred vision, the Argentine G20 Presidency placed sustainable development at the forefront of the G20 agenda in 2018, under the theme Building consensus for fair and sustainable development .
This G20 Eminent Persons Group on Global Financial Governance report recommends reforms to the global financial architecture and governance of the system of International Financial Institutions (IFIs), aiming to promote economic stability and sustainable growth and consider how the G20 could better provide continued leadership and support for these goals.
The report “Making Blended Finance work for the SDGs” supports the OECD DAC blended principles for unlocking commercial finance for SDGs and further sharpens their focus on the deployment of development and commercial finance on the objectives of development.
This report draws from interviews from coding bootcamps to understand why less women attend coding bootcamps, and strategy on how policy makers can achieve a higher ratio of women in these bootcamps.
This publication from the IADB his publication covers PPPs with a focus on the implications for public finances in developing economies.
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) have published a consultation report on the Evaluation of the effects of financial regulatory reforms on infrastructure finance.
This book addresses two concerns. First that advanced technologies developed in high-income countries would inexorably lead to job losses of lower-skilled, less well-off workers and exacerbate inequality. Second Policies intended to protect jobs from technology advancement would themselves stultify progress and depress productivity, these are addressed using the output effect subsitution effect framework.
The PPP Contract Management Tool provides practical guidance to government officials responsible for managing public-private partnership (PPP) contracts and concession contracts during construction and operations, based on extensive data and real-life case studies.
The interest generated by the role of PPP in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is considerable.
Public Investment Management Assessment (PIMA) is a comprehensive assessment framework developed by the IMF to help countries strengthen public investment management practices.
The IMF's Public Investment Management Assessment (PIMA) framework helps countries evaluate the strength of their PIM practices.
The paper looks at the consequences of Technological disruption in construction for infrastructure-investment managers.
The exercise is part of an annual ranking of the PPP context across countries undertaken by the World Bank group.