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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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The Current Situation and Problems of State-Owned Enterprises in Azerbaijan
(Center for Economic and Social Development, 2017-12-30)State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) are identified as entities that the state possesses directly or indirectly, more precisely, if the government owns more than 50.01% of shares of the companies they are considered as the SOEs (Orbis and other databases). ... -
Revisiting Land Policy: Reforms to Match Evolving Economic Needs
(Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka, 2017-10-02)This Policy Insight is based on the comprehensive chapter on "Revisiting Land Policy: Reforms to Match Evolving Economic Needs" in the 'Sri Lanka: State of the Economy 2017 Report' - the flagship publication of the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka. -
Asian Development Outlook 2017 Update Sustaining Development through Public–Private Partnership
(Asian Development Bank, 2017-09-30)Growth prospects in developing Asia are on the rise, buoyed by a rebound in global trade as solid recovery takes hold in the major industrial economies, and by strong investment demand. Also lifting regional prospects is growth in the People’s Republic ... -
Measuring and Examining Innovation in Philippine Business and Industry
(Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2017-09-30)Innovation involves implementing new or significantly improved goods and services, production processes, marketing, or organizational methods for adding value. The measurement of innovation provides a mechanism for benchmarking national performance, ... -
Public Private Partnership (PPP) in Latin America's Infrastructure Market and Policy Suggestions for Korea
(Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2017-07-15)Traditionally Korean construction firms have actively invested in Middle Eastern countries. However, the centralization of investment in the region is not sustainable for Korea since the economy of the region is vulnerable to oil price fluctuations and ... -
24/7 Normalized Water Supply Through Innovative Public-Private Partnership: Case Study from Ilkal Town, Karnataka, India
(Asian Development Bank, 2017-06-30)Public–private partnerships (PPPs) are seen, in particular by the Government of India, as a mechanism to improve the performance of utilities and generate efficiency gains in the delivery of water services, even though their potential for leveraging ... -
Philippines: Management of Contingent Liabilities Arising from Public-Private Partnership Projects
(Asian Development Bank, 2016-12-31)Given the rapid growth of the public–private partnership program (PPP), the Philippine government has initiated reforms to strengthen the framework for managing contingent liabilities arising from PPP projects. This study shows that major directions ... -
Economic Growth and Sustainable Development in the Pacific Island Countries
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2016-12-31)Exports of the Pacific island countries (PICs) have increased by 169%, reaching $9.6 billion in the past 20 years. Given the lack of economies of scale as a result of their small sizes, the PICs need to establish “niche markets,” targeting high-end ... -
National Greening Program: Lessons from institutional analysis
(Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2016-06-30)This Policy Note is the result of an institutional analysis and process evaluation of the NGP. It considers the program’s environmental, social, and economic impacts. -
2015 Clean Energy Investments Project Summaries
(Asian Development Bank, 2016-06-30)This report summarizes the investments in clean energy made by the operations departments of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 2015, condensing information from project databases and formal reports in an easy-to-reference format. This report was ...