Outreach and Communication

• At the Heart of Change: The Role of Communication in Sustainable Development (2007)

• CommGAP: Communication for Governance and Accountability Program

• Communicating the Impact of Communication for Development: Recent Trends in Empirical Research (2007)

• Mitigating Regulatory Risk for Distribution Privatization – The World Bank Partial Risk Guarantee

• Public-Private Partnerships for Water Supply and Sanitation: Policy Principles and Implementation Guidelines for Sustainable Services (2005)

• Setting Standards for Communication and Governance: The Example of Infrastructure Projects (2007)

• The Communication Initiative Network

Infrastructure Financing

• Financing Information and Communication Infrastructure Needs in the Developing World

• Financing Water For All - Report of the World Panel on
  Financing Water Infrastructure (2003)

• India - Financing Highways (2004)

• Infrastructure, Government Guarantees Allocating and Valuing Risk in Privately Financed Infrastructure Projects (2007)

• Is Cost Recovery a Feasible Objective for Water and Electricity? The Latin American Experience (2006)

• Is Debt Replacing Equity in Regulated Privatized Infrastructure in Developing Countries? (2004)

• Mitigating Regulatory Risk for Distribution Privatization – The World Bank Partial Risk Guarantee

• Project Finance, BOT Projects and Risk (2005)

• Public Money for Private Infrastructure: Deciding When to Offer Guarantees, Output-Based Subsidies, and Other Fiscal Support (2003)

• Urban Infrastructure Finance from Private Operators: What Have We Learned From Recent Experience? (2007)

• What International Investors Look For When Investing In Developing Countries: Results from a Survey of International Investors in the Power Sector

   

Infrastructure Trends

• 2006 Information and Communications for Development (IC4D): Global Trends and Policies (2006)

• Connecting Sub-Saharan Africa - A World Bank Group Strategy for Information and Communication Technology Sector Development (2005)

• Emerging Public-Private Partnerships in Irrigation Development and Management (2007)

• Infrastructure at the Crossroads: Lessons From the 20 Years of World Bank Experience (2006)
  

• Lessons from the Independent Private Power Experience in Pakistan

• Private Sector Development Blog

• Privatization Trends: A Record Year in 2006 (Public Policy for the Private Sector Journal)

• Public Policy Journal

• Public-Private Partnerships for Water Supply and Sanitation: Policy Principles and Implementation Guidelines for Sustainable Services (2005)

• Results of Railway Privatization in Australia and New Zealand (2005)

• Results of Railway Privatization in Latin America (2005)

• The Journal of Structured and Project Finance

• The Delhi Electricity Discom Privatizations: Some Observations and Recommendations

• World Bank Railways Database

Legal Frameworks and Regulation

• Do Regulation and Institutional Design Matter for Infrastructure Sector Performance? (2007)

• Electrification and Regulation: Principles and a Model Law

• Energy Sector  Reform: Strategies for Growth, Equity and Sustainability (2007)

• Handbook for Evaluating Infrastructure Regulatory Systems (2006)

   

• Policy and Planning for Large Infrastructure projects: Problems, Causes, Cures (2005)

• Privatization and Regulation of Transport Infrastructure - Guidelines for Policymakers and Regulators (2000)

• Reforming Infrastructure - Privatization, Regulation; and Competition(2001)

• Reforming Infrastructure - Privatization, Regulation, and Competition (2004)

• Regulating Utilities: Contracting Out Regulatory Functions (2004)

• Regulation by Contract: A New Way to Privatize Electricity Distribution?

• Regulatory Governance and Sector Performance: Methodology and Evaluation for Electricity Distribution in Latin America (2008)

• Regulatory Requirements Under Different Forms of Utility Service Delivery

• Resetting Price Controls for Privatized Utilities: A Manual for Regulators, (1999)

• Telecommunications Regulation Toolkit (2005)

• Water, Electricity and the Poor:  Who Benefits from Utility Subsidies?(2005) 

Project Facilitation

• Granting and Renegotiating Infrastructure Concessions : Doing It Right (2004)

• Innovative Contracts, Sound Relationships: Urban Water Sector Reform in Senegal (2004)

• Public-Private Partnership Units : What are They, and What Do They Do (2006)

• Renegotiation of Concession Contracts in Latin America (2003)

• The Infrastructure Consortium for Africa Project Preparation Facility

Options for Private Sector Participation

• Current Debates on Infrastructure Policy (2007)

• Independent Water Entrepreneurs in Latin America - The Other Private Sector in Water Services (2003)

• Launching Public Private Partnerships for Highways in Transition Economies (2005)

• New Models for Universal Access to Telecommunications Services in Latin America

• Output-based aid in Uganda: Bringing Communication Services to Rural Areas

• PPI Partnerships Versus PPI Divorces in Developing Countries (Or are We Switching From PPPI to PPDI (2005)

• Public and Private Sector Roles in the Supply of Transport Infrastructure and Services (2004)

• Public-Private Partnership Manual, South African Treasury Department (2004)

Sub-National Borrowing

• Banks or Bonds? Building a Municipal Credit Market

• Cities Alliance Municipal Finance Task Force

• Financial Management and Creditworthiness -  World Bank

• Financing City Infrastructure (2005)

• Local Financing For Sub-Sovereign Infrastructure In Developing Countries:  Case Studies of Innovative Domestic Credit Enhancement Entities and Techniques (2005)

• Measuring Local Government Credit Risk and Improving Creditworthiness (1998)

• Obtaining a Municipal Credit Rating: A Brief Overview (2006)