Public-private partnerships to improve water infrastructure in Zimbabwe

Vietnam’s Infrastructure Constraints: Public Investments and Public-Private Partnerships

Successful countries provide economy and society with infrastructure needed to maintain growth. Development experience suggests that investing 7 percent of GDP in infrastructure is the right order of magnitude for high and sustained growth. Over the last twelve years, the government of Vietnam was able to sustain infrastructure investment at 10 percent of GDP. This remarkably high level of inve...

Public-Private Partnerships in China’s Urban Water Sector

During the past decades, the traditional state monopoly in urban water management has been debated heavily, resulting in different forms and degrees of private sector involvement across the globe. Since the 1990s, China has also started experiments with new modes of urban water service management and governance in which the private sector is involved. It is premature to conclude whether the var...

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Building Social Infrastructure through Public-private Partnerships: the Case of Student Housing in Public Higher Education

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How to Design Infrastructure Contracts in a Warming World? A Critical Appraisal of Public-Private Partnerships

We analyze how uncertainty regarding future climate conditions affects the design of concession contracts, organizational forms and technological choices in a principal-agent context with dynamic moral hazard, limited liability and irreversibility constraints. The prospect of future, uncertain productivity shocks that affect the returns on the firm’s effort creates an option value of delaying e...