Highlights of recent trends in global infrastructure: New players and revised game rules

Transnational Corporations

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 99-133

  Orr, Ryan J ^a   Kennedy, Jeremy R ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld LLP ^*

Author keywords

Capital markets; China; Emerging markets; Equator principles; Infrastructure finanace; Multilateral development banks; Private infrastructure funds; Project finance; Public private partnerships

Indexed keywords

EID: 56549106287     PISSN: 10149562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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