The much anticipated UN Conference on Sustainable
Development, Rio+20, is finishing up
today. Watch the live
webcast and visit Zunia for
access to all the discussions and content that have surrounded the conference.
Seth Kaplan, a contributor to the Global Dashboard blog, discusses
the difference between fragile states and transition countries and how
development strategies should vary
accordingly.
The popularity of public-private
partnerships (PPPs) for development continues to
grow. The IFC recently held
a conference to bring together over one hundred government officials and
private sector representatives to discuss how to increase the number of PPPs in
water services, and learn from past successes and failures. The Kenyan minister
of finances plans to submit to Parliament his draft of a Public-Private
Partnership Bill which would provide a framework for how PPPs would be
governed within the country. Rajiv Shah, the head of USAID, touted
PPPs during the Frontiers in Development
conference and then again following the conference in an interview
with Forbes magazine. A new Roland
Berger study urges
private investors to shed long-held assumptions
about investing in emerging and developing countries and recognize the great
opportunities these countries offer.
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