Transition and emerging economies have difficulties developing their financial markets to a level that would provide access to long-term debt finance at an affordable cost. This report examines opportunities beyond the public sector for financing water and other environmental infrastructure....

Vom 18. bis 20. November 1996 fand in Nischny Novgorod ein Workshop zur Finanzierung von Umweltprojekten statt. Im Vordergrund stand dabei die Entwicklung von staatlichen Umweltprojekten sowie die Zusammenarbeit mit Unternehmen. Die Industrie soll dazu angehalten werden, auf umweltfreundliche...

This report draws on three detailed case studies from Armenia, the Russian Federation and Turkey and on the experience of OECD countries to provide guidance on how transfers from central budgets to local authorities could be designed to finance environmental infrastructures in transition...