Books by Vivien Foster

There is a need for the international community to improve its understanding of the role that China is playing in the development of Africa's infrastructure and its implications for Africa's development. This report seeks to contribute to such an understanding by providing estimates of the overall volume of finance and analysis of its composition.

Assesses and promotes cost effective approaches to the financing and provision of infrastructure services to the poor in developing countries. This book brings together evidence on subsidy performance across a range of countries. It documents the prevalence of consumer subsidies, and provides a typology of the variants found in those countries.