infrastructure has had on key macroeconomic variables in a sample of 21 Latin American countries from 1985-98. Specifically, they … paper since it is inconsistent with the fiscal gains expected by many policymakers as they engage in infrastructure … privatization programs.This paper - a product of the Governance, Regulation, and Finance Division, World Bank Institute, and Finance …

private involvement. The findings reveal considerable potential for private sector participation in infrastructure service …

Infrastructure investment encompasses multiple sectors, geographies, stages, and investment instruments/ products each … tailored portfolios.Infrastructure has traditionally been under the purview of governmental bodies. Its importance from a … private sector activity. Their aim is to help the creation of economically viable new infrastructure assets and upgrade …

Research on infrastructure as an asset class is still in its infancy due to the lack of data. Investors have approached … the performance evaluation of infrastructure deals from the lens of either real estate or private equity. We use fund …) and the total value to paid-in capital (TVPI) and assess the performance drivers of private infrastructure funds. Our …

The provision of public services (and the ownership of the associated infrastructure) in both the developed and … provision of civil infrastructure looking particularly at the financial engineering models that have emerged in the past 10 … years. It will briefly describe the generally unsatisfactory results of public service privatization in developing countries …

A background paper for a course on transport privatization and regulation, organized by the World Bank Institute.For a … World Bank Institute course on transport privatization, Betancor and Rendeiro (of the University of Las Palmas, Spain) cover … basic issues associated with the regulation of privatized airport infrastructure and services:- Economic characteristics of …

privatization and liberalization agenda, combined with the influx of private investment in infrastructure have decidedly been mixed …Recent years witnessed a profound reassessment of public policy towards the infrastructure sectors globally with a … participation in infrastructure (PPI) in Africa. The results of almost two decades of regulatory reforms, implementation of the …

The private sector exits only a fraction of private infrastructure projects before the contract ends. Yet such …. That would have implications for the role public-private partnerships can play in meeting the infrastructure needs of …

Investment in private participation in infrastructure projects in developing countries in 2004 and 2005 increased … advantage of private sponsors' renewed interest in infrastructure projects, governments need to create risk sharing arrangements …