Infrastructure development in Southeast Asia has been financed mainly by public funds, which leave wide gaps in … implementation is not limited to hard infrastructure only, but also to social infrastructure. …

. For this purpose, we use a trans-logarithmic cost function which includes infrastructure’s services as a quasi-fixed free …

Infrastructure assets have undergone substantial privatization around the world in recent decades. How do these assets … perform post-privatization? This paper examines global airports. Our central finding is that the type of ownership matters …: Volume, efficiency, and quality improve substantially under private equity (PE) ownership—both following privatization and in …

This paper quantitatively assesses the macroeconomic effects of the recently agreed U.S. bipartisan infrastructure … types of infrastructure spending and linkages between the final and intermediate goods sectors. We find that infrastructure … multipliers above unity if infrastructure spending and rising public debt are financed by consumption, dividend and labour income …

Infrastructure assets have undergone substantial privatization in recent decades. How do different types of owners …; instead, infrastructure funds improve performance both in privatization and subsequent acquisitions from non-PE private firms …)--matter? We explore these questions in the context of global airports, which like other infrastructure assets have been privatized …

A recent Asian Development Bank publication estimates the large infrastructure financing requirement in Asia for the …. This paper analyzes a critical aspect of expanding private finance to infrastructure by examining the role of bank lending … project financing by banks to infrastructure PPP projects is still in its infancy in several Asian markets, and banks are …

This study explores the role of governance in improving infrastructure reliability. It estimates that increasing … infrastructure spending and improving governance in parallel is six times more effective at enhancing transport system performance … infrastructure maintenance is as effective as 1.5 dollar of new investments in many OECD economies. Overall, the evidence in this …

The paper provides the first consistently estimated data set on infrastructure investments in low- and middle …-income countries. To do so, the authors identify three possible proxies for infrastructure investments: two are variants on gross fixed …'s BOOST database. Two of these proxies rely on the World Bank's Private Participation in Infrastructure database to capture …

supply of social infrastructure. If successfully pursued, PPP can deliver benefits to users, governments, and the private … renegotiation of PPPs. PPPs are not a must-have solution but an option for building and upgrading infrastructure. In conclusion … promoting the PPP modality for infrastructure. …