
The
World Bank and the
Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) have released an interesting note describing the projects that achieved financial closure during 2010 in 16 low- and middle income countries:
Private investment in transport returns to pre-crisis levels in 2010
The following list of facts summarizes very well the status of private investment in 2010:- Private investments in 2010 summed up US$29 billion- Investment in 2010 increased by 40% compared with 2009- Number of projects in 2010 grew by 75% compared with 2009- India alone accounted for 56% of investment and 61% of new projects- In Latin America and the Caribbean, six countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru) implemented 23 new projects representing US$5.7 billion in investment (almost 20 % of total investments)As you can see Latin America and India account for 76 % of total private investments in transport projects.
India is leading the world in building infrastructure projects and that is the reason why we have created the very succesful blog
InfraPPP India.
We have posted on
InfraPPP Reports another interesting report describing the world of Infrastructure Funds. This report has been prepared by
Preqin in July of 2011.