This report examines the role of infrastructure in explaining why the region lags so far behind the rest of the country …. More importantly, it looks at how improved infrastructure may help the region catch up. Infrastructure is examined here …

, and improved governance? The Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators (WWBI) were developed in response to growing calls to …

Private participation in infrastructure has taken two distinct forms in the developing world. The first model, applied … primarily in Latin America, focuses on privatization of existing infrastructure assets. The second, applied largely in East Asia … progress the region had made in applying this second model to mobilize private investment and financing for infrastructure …

World Bank, the engagement on Safe and Resilient Infrastructure has carried out a preliminary structural assessment of over … during the Forum on Safe and Resilient Infrastructure that took place in Manila, Philippines, in October 2013. This report is … methodology and results of a vulnerability assessment and prioritization conducted under the Safe and Resilient Infrastructure …

change. Participation of the private sector in climate-smart investments and infrastructure is critical and public … infrastructure gap without mobilizing private sector expertise, innovative thinking, investment capacity, and finance. PPPs can be a …

This report provides a diagnostic and a set of recommendations for the coordination of infrastructure investments in … three main sectors in Romania: roads; water and wastewater; and social infrastructure (education, health, culture, and … Infrastructure (DG RDI), which manages the most important state-budget-funded program for local infrastructure investments - the …

This public-private infrastructure advisory facility (PPIAF) - funded report aims to discuss and disseminate … information on how Islamic finance has been applied in infrastructure projects through public-private partnership (PPP) schemes … building blocks as they relate to financing infrastructure PPP projects, and the second, and perhaps less well understood, is …

remains challenging. With limited fiscal space, solely relying on public resources to fund infrastructure investments, will no … renewables and natural gas sector, there is significant potential for replicating the success across other infrastructure sectors …

forms part of the World Bank Group's Infrastructure Sector Assessment Program (INFRA-SAP) …