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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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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. -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Water Financing Partnership Facility: Semiannual Progress Report January to June 2018
(Asian Development Bank, 2018-09-15)Established on 29 November 2006, the Water Financing Partnership Facility (WFPF) aims to provide additional financial and knowledge resources from development partners to support the implementation of Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Water Financing ... -
Deriving Macroeconomic Benefits from Public–Private Partnerships in Developing Asia
(Asian Development Bank, 2018-08-15)The provision of infrastructure and related services in developing Asia via public–private partnership (PPP) increased rapidly during the late 1990s. Theoretical arguments support the potential economic benefits of PPPs, but empirical evidence is thin. ... -
The Office of Public - Private Partnership
(Asian Development Bank, 2018-04-30)The Office of Public–Private Partnership (OPPP) was established in September 2014 to enhance the role of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in supporting and enabling governments of its developing members to secure greater private investment and generate ... -
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). ... -
TDRI Quarterly Review: December 2017
(Thailand Development Research Institute, 2017-12-30)Currently, the Thai government allocates a vast amount of budget to fund several social projects. However, due to limited resources, the budget is not sufficient to serve all the needs of social members who are heterogeneous. Moreover, social services ...