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Investment commitments to infrastructure projects with private participation grew in 2005, but the number of infrastructure projects reaching financial closure fell, according to just-released data from the Private Participation in Infrastructure Database
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"This paper takes stock of recent privatization trends, examines the extent to which government ownership is still … 2003, 120 developing countries carried out nearly 8,000 privatization transactions and raised …
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The Regional Program on Enterprise Development (RPED) is designed to examine what specific factors hinder enterprise development in Africa and what can be done to mitigate them. RPED is a research initiative which will collect and analyze a large, varied, and unique set of data. RPED focuses on...
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In 2006, 12 low- and middle- income countries implemented at least 47 projects that involved investment commitments totaling US$2 billion according to just-released data from the Private Participation in Infrastructure Database. The annual number of water projects involving the private sector...
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The number of water sector projects involving the private sector grew in 2005, but investment flows to these projects fell considerably, according to just-released data from the Private Participation in Infrastructure Database
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Two of the seven major development challenges of the Royal Government of Bhutan identified for the Donors Development Forum, held in Thimpu in November 2000, were private sector development and employment generation. Given the fact that the public sector is unlikely to expand further in the...
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This Note looks at systems some governments have used to transform unsolicited proposals for private infrastructure projects into competitively tendered projects. It focuses on the policies that Chile, the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, and South Africa have adopted for managing such...
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, shifting power, and cultural uniformity. Globalization, Growth, and Poverty focuses on globalisation in terms of growing …
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. Integration--or "globalization"--has generated anxieties about rising ineuality, shifting power, and cultural uniformity. This …
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