Infrastructure & Public-Private Partnerships

Are consultants a waste of money?

Chicken Yoghurt and Owen debate. I'm with Owen: there's nothing wrong with knowledge transfer and there's nothing wrong with using consultants to do it. My usual caveat, of course:…

Tim Harford|
Environment, Infrastructure & Public-Private Partnerships, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector

Emerging market sponsors dominate infrastructure investments

Our latest Viewpoint highlights recent trends in private sector participation in infrastructure. All in all, flows increased by a welcome 12% in 2004, though this growth was mostly limited to the…

Pablo H.|
Energy, Environment, Health, Infrastructure & Public-Private Partnerships, Financial Inclusion

Word of the day: Amakudari

In Japanese, 'amakudari', literally descent from heaven, describes the phenomenon of being employed by a firm in an industry one has previously, as a government bureaucrat, been involved…

Pablo H.|
Environment, Health, Infrastructure & Public-Private Partnerships, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector

What is output-based aid?

The Global Partnership on Output Based Aid have a 30-page paper explaining just that:

Tim Harford|
Environment, Health, Infrastructure & Public-Private Partnerships, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector

Towards smarter aid

Lex Reiffel of Brookings writes in The Globalist: The MCC appears to be drifting toward “more of the same.” Its first four country programs look too much like projects administered by the World…

Tim Harford|
Environment, Health, Infrastructure & Public-Private Partnerships, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector
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