Publications

This handbook synthesises and disseminates knowledge to inform the planning, implementation, and operations of urban rail projects.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has promoted employment-intensive public and community works programmes as a major means of job creation and poverty alleviation in developing countries.

This document reviews the definitions and elements of the good governance policies of a number of multilateral development institutions.

The G20/OECD report on G20 investment strategies demonstrates the various initiatives undertaken by the G20 countries to promote infrastructure investment.

In June 2016, under Japanese presidency, G7 Leaders endorsed G7 Ise- Shima Principles for Promoting Quality Infrastructure Investment, which has crystalized as definition of quality infrastructure investment.

G20 finance ministers and central bank governors developed a set of leading practices to promote and prioritize quality infrastructure investment.

The policy framework for investment provides a systematic approach for improving investment conditions and a comprehensive checklist of key policy issues for consideration by any government interested in creating an enabling environment for all types of investment.

The purpose of these principles is to help government work with private sector partners to finance and bring to fruition projects in areas of vital economic importance, such as transport, water and power supply and telecommunications.

This report sets out several of the recent advances, and suggests the most promising approaches, to the quantification and valuation of some of the wider economic benefits that flow from transport-related development.

This report examines the issues that need to be considered before the decision to proceed to costly expansions with long-life spans and a structural influence on the local and national economy, drawing insights from a major port expansion project in Chile.

G20 Leaders endorsed the High Level Principles on Long-Term Investment Financing by Institutional Investors in September 2013, which is intended to help governments facilitate and promote long-term investment by institutional investors.

The G20/OECD Checklist consists of a list of questions and issues that represent an effort to develop an evaluation tool to help those countries who wish to self-assess their long-term investment (LTI) strategy and policy framework and more.

This Checklist for PPPs has been prepared from the point of view of public policy makers and decision-makers in countries at various levels of development and capacities for the purpose of a high level assessment of a PPP project.

An updated Checklist on Long-term Investment Strategies and Institutional Investors stresses on issues related to the identification of long-term investment needs.

This taxonomy developed by OECD maps out investment options available to private investors, identifying channels through which they can invest in infrastructure projects.

This Guidance note provides a set of selected voluntary policy recommendations that seek to help governments in tackling challenges related to mobilising private financing for infrastructure and SMEs.

This report describes the main types of risks associated in infrastructure and the tools available to the regulators and the policymakers to manage and allocate risks amongst other stakeholders.

The IMF/WBG Note presents policy issues related to Islamic finance for consideration by the G20 members.

The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises provides recommendations to businesses in the areas of disclosure; human rights; employment and industrial relations; environment; combatting bribery and more.