Presenting experiences from India, China, Brazil, South Africa and Poland, this work examines the need to boost infrastructure investment in cities as well as the need for prudent fiscal management across all levels of government.

Product Description: This book provides evolutionary and institutional perspectives on the reform of infrastructure industries, tracing the development of this process in a number of sectors and countries. The contributors contend that infrastructure based industries such as telecommunications, public transport, water management and energy have been increasingly exposed to the dynamism of the market since becoming privatized, and have therefore been stimulated into short-term efficiency and long-term innovation...read more

Product Description: Public-private collaboration in infrastructure projects takes place in a variety of institutional frameworks worldwide. This volume considers the different cultural, political and legal settings in the US, UK, Japan and other countries and regions where policymakers are reconsidering traditional mechanisms for raising and deploying capital...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)