(2019 APN CONFERENCE) Financing Infrastructure for Sustainable and Inclusive Development
#PPP Project Evaluation
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Overview
- DATE November 05, 2019(TUE) ~ 07(THU)
- TIME
- Venue Conrad Seoul, Korea
- Hosted KDI
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With support from Ministry of Economy and Finance (MOEF), Korea Development Institute (KDI), the World Bank Group (WBG), and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are organizing this year’s Asia PPP Practitioners’ Network (APN) Conference on the topic of “Financing Infrastructure for Sustainable and Inclusive Development.”
The APN, which started in 2010 as a five-day working level training that brought together practitioners from PPP units from across Asia and the Pacific, has been well recognized as a platform gathering knowledge and sharing trends in PPP development in the region. Serving as a global PPP network, its primary objectives are:
The APN, which started in 2010 as a five-day working level training that brought together practitioners from PPP units from across Asia and the Pacific, has been well recognized as a platform gathering knowledge and sharing trends in PPP development in the region. Serving as a global PPP network, its primary objectives are:
- To provide fundamental knowledge and essential skills for PPP units and government officials in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond;
- To share knowledge and experience of countries in PPP development and discuss policy issues for the promotion of infrastructure investment;
- To explore recent trends and analyze crucial issues in PPP models; and
- To facilitate regional and global networking and collaboration in the exchange of knowledge and information on PPPs.
Maintaining the original purpose and spirit, recent APN conferences have been an international arena convening heads of PPP units from Asian countries, invited to share important trends and issues in the world PPP market together with experts from the countries with an advanced PPP system, academia and international organizations.
Asia-Pacific countries are making great efforts to expand and upgrade their infrastructure, investing 4 to 5% of GDP. However, the infrastructure gap in this region is expected to persist by reaching $191 billion annually until 2040 according to a recent forecast (Global Infrastructure Hub, 2017). Securing an adequate level of financing for infrastructure investment is regarded as one of the most crucial policy issues to support long-term economic growth. Besides, many countries, not only in the Asia-Pacific region, are confronted with social problems and sustainability issues, such as environmental pollution, mitigation of and adaptation to the climate change, economic inequality and social polarization, disparity in regional development, lack of social services to the public etc. Moving beyond the traditional
“zero-sum” approach to economic efficiency and inequality, international organizations such as IMF and OECD are currently recognizing that prevailing inequality may jeopardize the foundation of sustained economic growth and therefore more “inclusive” policy responses are required (IMF, 2016). Given the broad and long-term impact of infrastructure, it is critical to consider sustainability and inclusiveness when formulating infrastructure policies and planning projects. Against this background, this year’s APN is expected to discuss the issues related to financing infrastructure for sustainable and inclusive development.
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