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Infrastructure in the developing world: does it need PPPs?

March 14, 2012
Blog entry

Public-private partnerships have garnered a lot of criticism but continue to be on the agenda of international development banks as a alternative way to finance infrastructure.

debt, development, Global South, infrastructure, PFI, PPP, public, services
Infrastructure in the developing world: does it need PPPs?

March 13, 2012
Publication

Bankwatch Mail invited two specialists, Matt Bull of the World Bank's Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility and David Price of the Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, Queen Mary, University of London, to debate the issue of PPPs in the developing world.

Social & economic impacts
BW Mail 51, Global South, PPP
Right track, weak attitude. The EU's Resource Efficiency Roadmap.

September 22, 2011
Blog entry

The European Commission this week published its ideas on how to build a resource efficient economy in Europe. Bankwatch's resource efficiency expert Marijan Galovic thinks the roadmap's focus is not wide enough yet.

Resource efficiency
EU, EU budget, European Commission, policy, PPP, waste incineration
In times of crisis - Poland's take on the Emperor's New Clothes

September 9, 2011
Blog entry

Poland has made a worrying proposal on public private partnerships that could risk the future stability of European economies by turning a blind eye to future public debt. But the EU would do well to take the British example as an eye opener.

Transport
Social & economic impacts
accountability, corporations, EU, policy, PPP, transparency
The sun ain't shining over Khimki Forest

May 4, 2011
Blog entry

The Khimki Forest in Russia might see its end signed and sealed this month. But Russian activists have continued their actions to defend Khimki forest also today by carrying out a citizens' inspection to prevent the still illegal felling of trees.

Transport
Social & economic impacts
human rights, motorways, PPP
Vinci concession exposed as cover for oligarchs and tax havens in Russia's first road PPP

April 30, 2011
Press release

An opaque web of offshore companies and oligarchs behind the controversial Moscow–St. Petersburg motorway public-private partnership provides new grounds for the Russian government to re-examine the project, according to new research by CEE Bankwatch Network and the Movement to Defend Khimki Forest, published today.

Transport
PPP
Vinci - a cover for oligarchs and tax havens in Russia's first road PPP

April 30, 2011
Publication

An opaque web of offshore companies and oligarchs behind the controversial EUR 1.5 billion first section of the Moscow–St. Petersburg motorway public-private partnership provides new grounds for the Russian government to re-examine the controversial project, according to this new research by CEE Bankwatch Network and the Movement to Defend Khimki Forest.

Transport
Social & economic impacts
PPP
20,000 backing Khimki activists calling on Vinci to end involvement in Moscow - St. Petersburg motorway

April 28, 2011
Blog entry

More than 20,000 people have signed a petition to demand Vinci's withdrawal from the construction of a highway section through the Khimki Forest in Russia.

Transport
human rights, motorways, PPP
Civil society groups welcome cancellation of Slovak D1 motorway PPP

September 3, 2010
Press release

Friends of the Earth CEPA (Slovakia) and CEE Bankwatch Network applaud today's cancellation [1] of the 9 billion euros public-private partnership (PPP) for the first phase of the D1 motorway in Slovakia and urged the new government to change the project's routing to avoid damaging the Mala Fatra and Velka Fatra National Parks.

Transport
EU, motorways, PPP
Never mind the balance sheet - the dangers posed by public-private partnerships in central and eastern Europe

November 27, 2008
Publication

In recent years public-private partnerships (PPPs) have been heavily promoted in central and eastern Europe (CEE), often giving the impression that where infrastructure is concerned, PPPs are the only game in town. Yet behind the plethora of conferences, workshops and publications, few CEE countries have implemented more than two or three PPP projects, and even fewer truly successful projects.

Transport
Social & economic impacts
PPP

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