Global opportunities for cities and localities have led to a renewed impetus for new financial tools. Addressing how public assets can be better used to generate private co-investment (rather than just sold for a once only ‘current value’ price) is now the new mind-set, and thinking about...

Einleitung -- Rechtsformauswahl -- Gründungsprozess und erste Projekte -- Ressourcen und Geschäftsfelder in den Regionen -- Vorteile der Technologien für die Region -- Finanzierung und Versicherung der Vorhaben -- Gesetzliche Rahmenbedingungen und Rentabilität der Vorhaben --...

Despite a world awash with liquidity, large infrastructure supply gaps exist across developing and emerging markets. Infrastructure has been largely decentralized to subnational governments in many countries, and many policymakers are keenly interested in developing subnational bond markets to...

This review is framed around the exploration of a central hypothesis: A shift in public investment toward secondary towns from big cities will improve poverty reduction performance. Of course the hypothesis raises many questions. What exactly is the dichotomy of secondary towns versus big...