In 2010, 36 infrastructure projects withprivate participation reached financial or contractualclosing in seven low and middle-income countries, involvinginvestment commitments of US$10.9 billion. Infrastructureprojects implemented in the 1990-2009 period attracted newinvestment of US$4.3 billion, bringing total investmentcommitments to infrastructure in the region to US$15.2billion in 2010. The activity in 2010 represents a 9 percentdecline by investment and 45 percent drop by number ofprojects compared with 2009. Investments in new projectsfell by 9 percent and in projects implemented in previousyears by 10 percent compared with 2009.