In developing countries the global financial crisis is leading to serious difficulties for infrastructure projects with private participation. In some cases governments are responding by simplifying their project approval processes or by substituting public for private financing. Even if markets...

Throughout the financial crisis, new private activity has continued to take place in developing countries with projects being tendered and brought to financial closure. In the first months of the full-scale of the financial crisis (Aug-Nov 2008), the rate of project closure was 26 percent lower...

New private activity continued to take place in developing countries in Aug-Nov 2008 with projects being developed, tendered, and taken to financial close, but at a rate that was about 40 percent lower than in the same period in 2007. The slowdown reflects an initial impact of the financial...