Geographic Coverage

The pilot exercise conducted in 2015 covered 10 economies: Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Tanzania; the Arab Republic of Egypt and Tunisia; and Colombia and Peru. For Benchmarking PPP Procurement 2017, the geographic coverage has been scaled up to cover 82 economies spanning seven World Bank Group Regions: 12 in East Asia and Pacific (EAP), 20 in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), 7 in Middle East and North Africa (MENA), 13 in Europe and Central Asia (ECA); 14 in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), 6 in South Asia (SAR), and 10 in OECD high income (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) economies (figure 1).

The Benchmarking PPP Procurement assessment is based on primary data collected using a standard questionnaire, which was administered to approximately 8,400 contributors in the 82 economies included in this year's edition. Data collection was conducted until the end of April 2016. Consequently, any legal or regulatory reforms that have taken place after March 31, 2016, are not taken into account in this year's report. Once the preliminary analysis is completed, a follow-up round is conducted, through conference calls and written correspondence, to address and rectify any discrepancies in the responses provided by the contributors. The preliminary data are then finalized and shared with governments or the World Bank Group's Country Management Units (CMUs) for validation (figure 2).

Figure 2

Note: PPP = public-private partnership.

Source: Benchmarking PPP Procurement 2017