This book provides a comprehensive overview of Private Equity (PE) financing in the infrastructure and real estate sectors. In doing so, it analyzes the impact of such investments in the two sectors, evaluates the types of financing strategies, and explores the value created by such investments....

The main purpose of this paper is to empirically analyze the characteristics of infrastructure projects which have private equity investments in them. A comprehensive sample of 2821 infrastructure projects (worth US$1.4 trillion) globally from 1990 till 2009 has been examined in this paper....

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are being frequently used today to private sector investment in road projects. Most of the road PPP projects are either for new roads or for those that involve significant expansion of existing capacity. There are limited instances of PPPs for renovating and...