This webinar presentation is based on a study by Gregory K. Ingram, Zhi Liu, and Karin Brandt (2013), “Metropolitan Infrastructure and Capital Finance,” which is published in Roy W. Bahl, Johannes F. Linn, and Deborah L. Wetzel (ed.), Financing Metropolitan Governments in Developing Countries, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.The study attempts to answer two main questions: how much urban infrastructure investment is needed to maintain urban economic growth and how cities mobilize financial resources for infrastructure capital investments?Through an empirical analysis of cross-country data, the study develops estimates of the likely magnitudes of national infrastructure investments in coming years, from which one could estimate the likely magnitudes of infrastructure investments for metropolitan or urban areas. The study found that the performance of infrastructure stocks in terms of delivering services efficiently varies widely across countries and across subsectors within a country, and therefore, increasing the efficiency of use of existing investments in infrastructure can be an important alternative strategy that is less costly than adding more capacity through capital investment. Over the last two decades, private participation in infrastructure (PPI) has increasingly played a significant role in infrastructure investments across the developing world. Today the size of PPI is much larger than that of development assistance. New domestic financing instruments, such as land-based financing and municipal bond, have also emerged in some developing countries. To meet the need for urban infrastructure finance, developing cities could learn from one another’s experiences with infrastructure financing, efficiency improvement and service delivery