Sustainability and Infrastructure Investment: National Development Banks in Africa

Urban Infrastructure Development and Sustainability in Nigeria

Low carbon infrastructure investment: extending business models for sustainability

Investment in infrastructure is recognized as a key enabler of economic prosperity, but it is also important for addressing social and environmental challenges, including climate change mitigation and addressing fuel poverty. The UK Government Strategy Investing in Britain’s Future argues that significant investment in “resilient, cost effective and sustainable energy supplies” is needed to mee...

Financing Infrastructure Investment and Socio-Economie Development

There is over the last few years a clear trend in Europe to privatise traditional govemmental tasks, also because of new EU legislation. Many of these tasks have traditionally been carried out by the govemment itself, largely because of the ‘natura1 monopoly’ argument. Examples of current and future privatisation polities are the telecommunication and energy sector. For transport infrastructure...

Infrastructure Investment Location and Western Development

Western region development is fundamental to the sustainable growth of China. The rapid growth in the East and the backwardness in the West vividly demonstrate its unbalanced regional economic structure. The catching-up of the Western region constitutes a major concern for the long-term sustainable development in terms of economic growth as well as in terms of politic stability. Western region ...

Rethinking the Role of National Development Banks

This paper is a revised and updated version of the informal background document prepared for the Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting on “Rethinking the Role of National Development Banks” (New York, 1-2 December 2005). Its goal is two-fold. First, it aims to provide a possible framework for analyses at follow-up regional meetings, with a view to deriving conclusions and recommendations. Second, it incl...