The Government of Uzbekistan is aware that the irrigation and drainage infrastructure constructed under the Former Soviet Union - serving some 4.3 million hectare of cultivable land for agriculture as well as many villages for drinking water - is in urgent need of repair and/or rehabilitation....

This report is the output of the finalize toolkit phase (phase three) for the project sustainability toolkit for transport projects. The overall objective, as defined in the terms of reference, is 'to make development projects more sustainable by reducing the risk of failure of projects...

Cambridge Economic Policy Associates (CEPA) was selected to provide a training course on infrastructure finance for the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), co-funded by the World Bank. This final report provides: an overview of the final course provided (section two); a summary of the participants...

"Coercive isomorphism is a prominent source of institutional change. The literature to date has emphasized how actors that are powerful and legitimate (for example, a national government) may coerce the adoption of reforms by dependent actors (for example, state governments and other...

"In the aftermath of the 1997 East Asian financial crisis, the government of the Republic of Korea published a Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) Act to remove the main impediments to private investment in infrastructure sectors. The implementation of the Act was followed by a steady...