Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are supposed to provide solutions to many of the existing problems related to infrastructure projects

This Report of the Committee deals with the action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in the Twenty-Seventh Report (Fourteenth Lok Sabha) of the Standing Committee on Chemicals & Fertilizers (2008-09) on

This set of briefs considers how to increase the tools available to poor households to manage agricultural and health risks.
The focus is how to develop insurance markets, along with other financial instruments such as credit, savings, and social
protection policies. The series does not document the proven impact of insurance markets for the welfare of poor people;

This report aims at developing a common action plan that would facilitate public-private partnerships (PPP) for disaster risk reduction (DRR) in East Asia, based on an evaluation of PPP case studies and consultations with stakeholders.

Mitigating and adapting to climate change increases the cost of development. Considerable resources are needed in addition to the present levels of official development assistance (ODA) to complement rather than undermine the efforts and progress towards the achievement of development objectives including Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

It has been shown that long-term growth and development across countries is driven to a large extent by productivity growth. Several studies exist that have attempted to examine the effect of different factors influencing productivity growth using industries or firms as units of analysis.