The book provides readers with a clear understanding of infrastructure challenges, how Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) can help, and their use in practice. Infrastructure bottlenecks are generally considered the most important constraint to growth in many countries worldwide. Historically,...

Optimal approaches that recognise the specific kind of market failure/s, in the policy and design of infrastructure, greatly reduce the financing costs and improves the ability of to attract finance in the private provisioning of infrastructure. When state systems are weak organisationally it is...

Driving infrastructure development, notably mobilizing financial resources for infrastructure projects, has been challenging in many countries. This study includes two parts: an empirical analysis of macroeconomic risks associated with infrastructure booms, and a case study of four emerging...

Rethinking infrastructure development / William Ascher and Corinne Krupp -- Distributional implications of alternative financing of physical infrastructure development / William Ascher and Corinne Krupp -- Beyond privatization : rethinking private sector involvement in the provision of civil...