Intro -- Contents -- Cover -- Title -- Foreword vii -- Acknowledgments viii -- Abbreviations and Acronyms ix -- 1 The Private Sector and Poverty Reduction 1 -- 2 The Investment Climate 17 -- 3 Public Intervention to Promote Supply Response 71 -- 4 Private Participation and Markets for Basic...

This paper provides perspectives on patterns of public-private partnerships in infrastructure across time and space. Public-private partnerships are a new term for old concepts. Much infrastructure started under private auspices. Then many governments nationalized the ventures. Governments often...