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2017-05-24

  Supporting Regional Innovation Hubs in Nigeria

The Growth and Employment (GEM) Project, a World Bank Group funded project implemented by the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment (FMITI), has provided technical advice to Office of the Vice-President on the establishment region...
  Worldbank's OLC author
2017-03-01

  Digital divides and dividends: Productivity, inequality and liberty in the digital age

Digital technologies have rapidly spread in much of the world. The number of internet users has more than tripled in a decade, and nearly 70 percent of the bottom fifth of the population in developing countries own a mobile phone. Despite this positive...
  Worldbank's OLC author
2017-03-01

  Accessing and Visualizing Multi-Sectoral Data in a Spatial Context (Spatial Agent)

Many decisions in a watershed or a river/lake basin are hampered by availability of adequate information. For example, which are the erosion hotspots in a watershed? What is the flow at various points in a basin? Which areas are susceptible to floo...
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2017-02-07

  The Business of Doing Good: Supporting Pro-poor Business Solutions to Poverty

Where there are unmet development challenges, such as sanitation problems in the slums, last mile health provision, access to clean drinking water, rural electricity needs, etc -- social enterprises have developed business models to address these iss...
  Worldbank's OLC author
2016-12-16

  Virginia P3: How Proposals Are Identified and Screened for PPP Development with Morteza Farajian

Virginia began its experience with Public-Private Partnerships by passing the Virginia Public-Private Transportation Act (PPTA) of 1995, which provided the legal framework for PPPs in the transportation sector. In 2002, the Virginia legislature passed ...
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2016-12-15

  Virginia P3: How Proposals Are Identified and Screened for PPP Development with Patrick DeCorla-Souza

Virginia began its experience with Public-Private Partnerships by passing the Virginia Public-Private Transportation Act (PPTA) of 1995, which provided the legal framework for PPPs in the transportation sector. In 2002, the Virginia legislature passed ...
  Worldbank's OLC author
2016-11-30

  Unified Framework for Feasibility Assessment: Republic of Korea

The Republic of Korea has a long history of PPP. Its early experience consisted of individual legislation for specific projects. In 1994, the government began to formalize its process with the passing of the Act for the Promotion of Private Capital Inv...
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2016-11-22

  An Attractive Environment: The Netherlands Approach to Identifying/Screening PPP Projects

The Netherlands has a rich history of private participation in the development of its public infrastructure, dating back to the country’s beginnings in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. However, the idea of formalized PPP immigrated to the Dutch...
  Worldbank's OLC author
2016-11-16

  Identifying/Screening Projects for PPP Implementation: Afghanistan

Afghanistan, like many developing countries, has been seeking ways to develop and improve infrastructure within the framework of limited fiscal capabilities. In recent years, the World Bank Group has been working with the Government of Afghanistan on i...
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2016-11-16

  Value for Money: Identifying/Screening PPP Proposals in South Africa

In 1997, the South African Cabinet approved an inter-departmental task team to create a package of policy, legislative, and institutional reforms to create an enabling environment for PPPs. To facilitate this work, several pioneering PPPs were carried ...
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