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Best practices in Public-Private Partnerships financing in Latin America
of regulations in investment contracts, risk allocation, tax
impacts, and in general, indispensable aspects for an efficient
management of projects throughout their execution.
In order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to carry out policies
concerning information knowledge and development of
capabilities for the private and public sectors. In this context,
on May 4th and 5 th , 2011 the conference “Best Practices in
Financing Public-Private Partnerships in Latin America” was
held in the headquarters of the World Bank in Washington
D.C., in order to share best practices of PPP financing among
LAC countries, with emphasis on the design, implementation
and efficiency in the use of financial mechanisms developed
by LAC governments as response to the effects of the global
financial crisis.
Likewise, best practices can be applied in other regions in
order to strengthen PPP programs.
This event has been an important effort in that direction,
and gathered 120 participants in Washington, many of them
representatives from 15 LAC countries, including PPP Agency
officials, Treasury Ministries, directors of Planning Agencies,
representatives of regulation agencies, as well as executives of
investment banks, investment funds managers, infrastructure
operators, rating agencies for Latin America, and in general,
professors, researchers, PPP practitioners and representatives
of multilateral agencies.
The audience included the online participation of a significant
number of PPP practitioners (between 300 and 400 participants
of 50 countries) through the Global PPP Network (http://
pppnetwork.ning.com) of the World Bank Institute. All
participants, in addition to seeing and listening to the
presentations in real time, were able to ask questions and share
their comments and opinions with speakers and panelists.
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