Investment commitments to infrastructure projects with private participation grew in 2005, but the number of … infrastructure projects reaching financial closure fell, according to just-released data from the Private Participation in … Infrastructure Database …

This Note looks at systems some governments have used to transform unsolicited proposals for private infrastructure … unsolicited proposals, especially the risks they raise for competition and transparency. Among private infrastructure projects …

, political, and governance variables to assess the determinants of private financing of infrastructure in emerging markets and … developing economies. Controlling for economic characteristics, we find that overall private participation of infrastructure … infrastructure. Our results do not vary when controlling for income inequality and across quartiles of experience, country wealth …

Privatization has been a key component of structural reform programs in both developed and developing economies. The … theoretical implications: privatization increases profitability and efficiency in both competitive and monopolistic sectors. Full … privatization has a greater impact than partial privatization and monopolistic sectors show an increase in profitability that is …