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PPIAF Highlights

Assessment of the Impact of the Crisis on New PPI Projects – Update 3
New projects are still being tendered and brought to financial closure, but at a slower pace. Between July 2008 and March 2009, the rate of project closure fell 15% by investment commitments compared to a similar period in the previous year. Learn more.

Institutional Reforms and PPP Options for the Port of Brcko
In Bosnia and Herzegovina PPIAF is sponsoring a study to outline a policy reform package for the port of Brcko, with the aim of improving the port’s operational and financial performance. Learn more.

Exploring the PPIS Database
This paper describing the Private Participation in Infrastructure Services Database accompanies the analytical work undertaken into the performance of private sector operators, published in “Does Private Sector Participation Improve Performance in Electricity and Water Distribution?” (PPIAF's Trends and Policy Options No. 6). Learn more.

Workshop on Public Transport Planning and Reform
The City of Tshwane published a press release after hosting a workshop on the Reform of Public Transport in partnership with PPIAF, the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP) and the World Bank. Learn more.

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New Publications

Private Sector Investment in Infrastructure: Project Finance, PPP Projects and Risks (Second Edition)
This book provides a practical guide to PPP, how governments can enable and encourage PPP, how PPP financing works, what PPP contractual structures look like and most importantly how PPP risk allocation works in practice, including specific discussion of each infrastructure sector. Learn more.

Private Participation in Transport: Lessons from Recent Experience in Europe and Central Asia
This Gridlines is based on the report Private Participation in the Transport Sector: Lessons of Experience in Europe and Central Asia. Facing fiscal constraints, many governments in the region have pursued private finance for transport infrastructure more to move investments off budget than to improve efficiency and services. Results have been mixed. Learn more.

Another Lost Decade? Effects of the Financial Crisis on Project Finance for Infrastructure
Rapid growth in project finance, driven by huge increases in liquidity, helped fuel the gains in private participation in infrastructure in developing countries in the past decade. But when the financial crisis hit, the excess liquidity began to dry up as lenders backed away from practices that had helped generate it. Learn more.

New Needs for Technical Assistance: Responding to the Effects of the Financial Crisis on Private Participation in Infrastructure
In developing countries the global financial crisis is leading to serious difficulties for infrastructure projects with private participation. In some cases governments are responding by simplifying their project approval processes or by substituting public for private financing. Learn more.

Upcoming Events

For your information:
July 9-10, 2009: Partners' Forum for the Infrastructure Recovery Assets Platform (INFRA) (Brussels, Belgium)
September 9, 2009: Launch of the Doing Business Report
September 15, 2009: Launch of the World Development Report on Climate Change (New York, USA)