World Bank Department, consisting of three units: Competition and Strategy Group; Privatization and Restructuring Group; Private Participation in Infrastructure Group. PSD is itself part of the Bank’s Vice Presidency for Finance and Private Sector Development (FPD)

Information products include:

(a) WWW site: information on activities. Include full text of the FDP Notes series (available in print as articles in the Public Policy for the Private Sector journal)

(b) PPI maintains databases of: private infrastructure projects world-wide (based on trade press and direct contacts); consultants c.v. database; Bank projects with an infrastructure component (since 1988); directory of regulatory agencies; library catalogue

(c) Fundline: online database of portfolio investment funds, private equity funds/companies, venture capital funds, mutual fund etc. for Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.

(d) Technet: aims to encourage understanding of science, technology and information in development (see separate entry)

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