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Asia's unmet demand for infrastructure will continue to require heavy participation by the private sector. Find out here the many ways the public and private sectors partner for successful development and investment.
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Introducing the Tax-Kicker Bond: Budget-Neutral Financing of Private Infrastructure by Back-End Participation in Future Tax Revenue Growth
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2017-08-30)
This brief shows the spillover effect of how infrastructure can create jobs, industries, and regional wealth. Revenue from property rates, income and business taxes, as well as sales or value-added tax increases along the periphery and adjacent areas ...
Water Privatization, Ethnicity and RentSeeking: Preliminary Evidence from Malaysia
(ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, 2015-11-04)
This paper focuses on water and sewerage projects in the state of Selangor to illustrate the relationship between privatisation, ethnicity and rent-seeking. Section 2 outlines the problem in terms of Malaysia’s failed water privatisation, contextualises ...
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Realizing the Potential of Public–Private Partnerships to Advance Asia’s Infrastructure Development
(Asian Development Bank, 2019-01-15)This publication highlights how public–private partnerships (PPPs) can be effective to meet Asia’s growing infrastructure needs. It shows how governments and their development partners can use PPPs to promote more inclusive and sustainable growth. The ... -
Water and the Private sector: Accelerating Sustainable Corporate Water Stewardship and Collective Action in Pakistan
(Sustainable Development Policy Institute, 2018-11-30)Water problems of today require a multidimensional and multifaceted response, bringing together an array of stakeholders, including the government, private sector, civil society and international funding agencies. In fact, as the world moves towards ... -
Risk Mitigation and Sovereign Guarantees for Public–Private Partnerships in Developing Economies
(Asian Development Bank, 2018-11-15)Public–private partnerships (PPPs) face a range of challenges in developed economies, such as appropriate risk sharing, attracting the right sponsors, and ensuring quality of service. As a large percentage of ADB’s developing member countries are ... -
Social Funding of Green Financing: An Application of Distributed Ledger Technologies
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2018-11-15)To achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs) as well as the Paris Agreement major investments in renewable energy (RE) production are necessary worldwide. In particular, decentralized, small-scale projects offer copious potential to create energy ... -
DFI Working Group on Blended Concessional Finance for Private Sector Projects: Joint Report, October 2018 Update
(Asian Development Bank, 2018-10-30)Blended concessional finance for private sector projects is one of the significant tools that Multilateral Development Banks and Development Finance Institutions (collectively,” DFIs”) can use, in cooperation with donors and other development partners, ... -
Public–Private Partnership Systems in the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, and Indonesia
(Asian Development Bank, 2018-10-15)Infrastructure plays a critical role in boosting the economy’s overall productivity and development toward improving the quality of life. Public–private partnership (PPP) is considered as one of the key modalities for sustainable infrastructure ... -
The Private Turn in Humanitarian Aid
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2018-10-05)To bridge funding gaps in humanitarian assistance, states will need to re-examine their roles, relative to the private sector. Humanitarian technologies offer a potential high-volume, low-profit margin sector which can be an entry point for private companies. -
Traditional Procurement versus Public–Private Partnership: A Comparison of Procurement Modalities Focusing on Bundling Contract Effects
(Asian Development Bank, 2018-09-30)This paper studies the optimal structure of procurement contracts between public and private sectors by mainly comparing two typical procurement types: traditional procurement and public–private partnership (PPP). We first set up a principal–agent model ... -
Multilateral Development Banks' Harmonized Framework for Additionality in Private Sector Operations
(Asian Development Bank, 2018-09-30)The international community has reached a consensus that private sector finance must play a critical role to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the COP 21 commitments. Private sector finance is more abundant than even the most generous ... -
Rationale and Institution for Public-Private Partnerships
(Asian Development Bank, 2018-09-15)Private–public partnership (PPP) methods are considered to be an effective way to narrow the gap between demand and supply of social infrastructure. If successfully pursued, PPP can deliver benefits to users, governments, and the private sector, or the ...