, 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 …

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 investigates the emerging global landscape for public-private co-investments in infrastructure. The creation … of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and other so-called 'infrastructure investment platforms' are an attempt to … infrastructure projects. This paper puts these new initiatives into perspective by critically reviewing the literature and experience …

management of infrastructure services, not only for economical but also for social reason. During the Eighties, most countries in … governments saw private participation in infrastructure as a means to increase efficiency in the provision of services and support … fundamental fiscal reform with privatization receipts and future tax income from privately run companies …

Adequate and well-functioning infrastructure is a key ingredient to growth and well-being. The benefits to activity of … accumulation. Good infrastructure facilitates trade, bolsters market integration and competition, fosters the dissemination of … other markets. Nevertheless, Australia has an important infrastructure deficit. This is in part due to underinvestment in …