Private Activity in Infrastructure Reached a New Peak in 2007

Izaguirre, Ada Karina ; Perard, Edouard

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: AIRPORTS;    CONSUMER PRICE INDEX;    DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;    ECONOMICS;    ELECTRICITY;   

RP-ID  :  47503

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The report is about the privateparticipation in infrastructure database. Energy andtelecommunications drove most of the year's growth.Energy had growth of 96 percent, reaching its second highestlevel since 1990. Telecommunications saw an increase of 13percent to its highest level ever. The sector accounted for47 percent of investment in 2007. Transport had a 7 percentdecline, but the level in 2007 was still the second highestfor the sector. Water investment amounted to US$3 billion,well below the peak of 1997 but within the US$2-3 billionrange of the previous three years. The number of privateinfrastructure projects implemented in 2007 fell by 7percent to 288. But the situation varied across sectors. Thenumber of projects rose by about 8 percent in energy and inwater and sewerage, while it dropped by 12 percent intelecommunications and by more than 25 percent in transport.The report concludes, continuing the trends of the previousfive years, private activity in 2007 was more evenlydistributed across regions than it had been during the boomof the late 1990s.