With Indian economy growing at an average rate of more than 8 percent over the last five years and other macroeconomic factors and policies favorable complementing the growth, India has emerged as an attractive investment destination. Global investors looking for investment opportunities in...

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....