Private Infrastructure : Private Activity Fell by 30 Percent in 1999

Izaguirre, Ada Karina ; Rao, Geetha

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: PRIVATE INFRASTRUCTURE;    PRIVATE SECTOR PARTICIPATION;    DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;    FINANCIAL CRISES;    ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION;   

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学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This note, which draws on the WorldBank's Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI)database, provides an overview of recent trends ininfrastructure projects with private participation indeveloping countries. Three main trends have emerged duringthe past decade. Private activity in infrastructure grewdramatically between 1990 and 1997, but declined because ofthe financial crises of 1998-99. Most developing countrieshave some private activity in infrastructure, but LatinAmerica, and East Asia dominate investments. It is suggestedthat private infrastructure activity in developing economieswill revive as they recover form the economic crisis of thelate 1990s, and the fundamental reasons for long-termprivate activity, - increasing demand for infrastructure,sector inefficiencies, and public budget constraints - will continue.