Infrastructure & Public-Private Partnerships

Industry risks, and how to mitigate

MIGA has published a new series of briefs outlining the investment challenges in 10 different global sectors.

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

Deregulating electricity markets

Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith writes in the Wall Street Journal to advocate vertical separation for the US electricity industry, to prevent the monopolistic wires business from sitting on potential…

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

From the kind folks at McKinsey Quarterly...

Our gracious colleagues at McKinsey Quarterly have found us and have kindly agreed to provide free guest-passes for our previous post on India. Normally, full-text access to these links is…

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

Low-cost, high-impact technology: $5 cell phones?

Let's see whether we get beyond the press release from Philips (via NextBillion), who promise a: ...sub-$5 system solution – an integrated hardware and software platform constituting all the…

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

Unearthing India’s mineral wealth

The McKinsey Quarterly reports that burdensome government restrictions are choking the potential of India’s mineral resources: Regulatory approval for mining projects takes three to seven years in…

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