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    Comparative Commentary to Brazil’s Cooperation and Investment Facilitation Agreements (CIFAs) with Mozambique, Angola, Mexico, and Malawi

    Comparative Commentary to Brazil’s Cooperation and Investment Facilitation Agreements (CIFAs) with Mozambique, Angola, Mexico, and Malawi

    Unlike traditional bilateral investment treaties (BITs), which are geared toward investor protection, Brazil’s Cooperation and Investment Facilitation Agreements (CIFAs—or ACFIs in their Portuguese acronym) focus primarily on cooperation and investment facilitation. Read More
  • Paper
    Currency Risk in Project Finance

    Currency Risk in Project Finance

    In developing countries, international financing institutions (IFIs) often help finance key infrastructure projects, predominantly through hard currency loans. Read More
  • Paper
    Risk Allocation in Public-Private Partnerships: Maximizing value for money

    Risk Allocation in Public-Private Partnerships: Maximizing value for money

    Optimal risk allocation is one of the key value for money (VFM) drivers in a public-private partnership (PPP) delivery model. In a conventional... Read More

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    Sharing Risk and Revenues from PPPs: Perspectives from current practice in the road sector

    Sharing Risk and Revenues from PPPs: Perspectives from current practice in the road sector

    Accurately forecasting traffic demand is a key component in the planning process for a highway transportation project.

    Traffic levels are... Read More

  • Paper
    Aligning Public and Private Interests in a Public-Private Partnership: Safeguarding the public interest while allowing private returns

    Aligning Public and Private Interests in a Public-Private Partnership: Safeguarding the public interest while allowing private returns

    Involving private parties in infrastructure projects—traditionally seen as “public goods” in economic theory—is not without controversy.

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    The Private Financing Component in Public-Private Partnerships

    The Private Financing Component in Public-Private Partnerships

    Many policy-makers and public-private partnership (PPP) practitioners view access to private financing as the main motivation for developing... Read More

  • Blog
    Why Infrastructure is Key to the Success of the SDGs

    Why Infrastructure is Key to the Success of the SDGs

    Infrastructure is core to our quality a life—a fact that explains the prevalence of infrastructure, both implicitly and explicitly, in the... Read More

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    Financing for Agriculture: How to boost opportunities in developing countries Policy Brief #3 Investment in Agriculture

    Financing for Agriculture: How to boost opportunities in developing countries Policy Brief #3 Investment in Agriculture

    This policy brief explores the financial needs of agriculture in developing countries and the instruments available to address these needs. Read More
  • Blog
    Fossil fuel subsidy reform in Canada: A post-partisan issue

    Fossil fuel subsidy reform in Canada: A post-partisan issue

    Almost unnoticed in Canada’s federal election campaign is the fact that all national political parties have agreed on the need to reform fossil... Read More

  • Blog
    Between a Rock and a Dry Lake Bed: Developed and developing economies coping with drought

    Between a Rock and a Dry Lake Bed: Developed and developing economies coping with drought

    Of all the specific challenges we face around the world today, a prevalent natural disaster that is often forgotten in light of floods, cyclones... Read More