Tag: Infrastructure investment

In a comprehensive analysis of growth in East Asia and the Pacific, the World Bank has warned that policy responses to distortions in food and energy markets may reduce funding for infrastructure, health and education.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $193 million loan for environmental improvement and low-carbon development in Heilongjiang, China. 

Asian Development Banks’s Masatsugu Asakawa warns that China’s slowdown, global financial instability, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the threat of new Covid variants are serious threats to Asia’s economic recovery and development. 

Dr Akinwumi Adesina has told an audience in New York that huge opportunities for growth in Nigeria and Africa risk being held back by debt and climate change. 

African Development Bank (AfDB) has provided financial modelling training to staff of the government of Chad as they prepare the national utility for Desert to Power interventions in the country. 

Nigerian vice president Yemi Osinbajo makes case for decisive action on net zero and universal energy, launching major programmes that industry has been quick to support.  

Medicine from the Sky in Arunachal Pradesh is a six-month project to analyse the response of the state’s healthcare system when integrated with drones. Its potential to connect regions without conventional road deliveries is an indication of where leapfrogging may take us.  

In the fifth of a series of articles, FIDIC president Tony Barry looks at strategies for professional indemnity insurance against the backdrop of much changed professional liability conditions.  

Private equity infrastructure fund co-managed by Oman Infrastructure Investment Management (OIM) and Equitix, receives capital commitment from Saudi sovereign wealth fund. 

In the fourth of a series of articles, FIDIC president Tony Barry looks at how consumer law impacts on professional liability, pushing up costs and reducing scope for innovation across infrastructure.