Drawing on a comprehensive panel data of 137 low income and developing countries, this study queries the macro-economic drivers of Public Private Partnership (PPP) in these countries. PPP is mainly used as a method to address infrastructure needs of nation states which cannot allocate their...

This paper aims to present and discuss the already existing studies and try to uncover possible potential for further research on the topic of financial resources in public-private partnership (PPP) projects. The article presents the main relevant papers regarding financial resources and...

In the last decades, Albania has started the implementation of a new practice which is partnership with the private sector, named public-private partnership (PPP), due to the inabilities of the public sector to fulfill all its public needs. This represents a crucial ratio related to economic...

The global economy has been facing a series of adverse shocks in recent years including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate crisis, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, high inflation, and interest rate shocks driven by global monetary policy normalization. The high cost of fossil fuels since 2021,...

This article examines the application of one of the forms of modern public management-public-private partnership (PPP)-in the forestry sector. This contributes to the search for new forms and methods that uphold the principles of sustainable development, decentralization, liberalization and...

Migrant labor market integration is vital for the resilience of the host country and the migrant population's sustainable livelihood. Greece, which hosts thousands of new immigrants, could seize the private sector's experience to offer effective and holistic labor market integration...

Can parties contract out of the general partnership form of business organization, even if their conduct would otherwise establish a partnership? Although a recent judicial decision suggests that they can, treating contractual disclaimers of partnership as dispositive is inconsistent with modern...

Seve Ballesteros-Santander Airport is a success story among Europe's small regional airports.This success is due to 1) the commitment to the promotion of connectivity and tourism by the successive regional governments of Cantabria - one of the 17 regions making up Spain - and 2) the management...

In recent years, India has experienced a sharp increase in energy demand as a result of economic growth, increasing prosperity, rising per capita energy consumption and widening access to energy. The sole reliance on conventional sources of energy puts heavy burden on the limited financial...

This paper introduces and critically analyzes an emerging form of global infrastructure development by China's infrastructure construction companies, known as "integrated investment, construction, and operation" (IICO). This model has been promoted by the Chinese infrastructure industry,...

Partnership between the public and private sectors, the main constituents of the economy, is not only logical but seems like a natural institutional arrangement. It can be a symbiotic relationship which brings about mutually beneficial processes and outcomes that redound to the economy and...

In a continuous-time setting, we study the design of a dynamic contract between a government and a private entity, wherein the latter commits to pay the government in return for the exclusive right to sell a service by operating a public facility. Private revenues are modelled as depending on...

Chinese companies have been seeking to climb up the value chain by becoming investors and operators of the infrastructure projects they are contracted to build. Despite their prominent market share in Africa as contractors, Chinese companies face a steep learning curve and have sought to work...

These days Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) and Build Operate and Transfer (BOT) model is attracting the interest of growing thrust towards privatization and private sector participation in the development of public infrastructure projects in India. Since, 1990’s economic liberalization the...

Indonesia is extensively promoting Public-Private Partnership (PPP) for infrastructure projects, including in the water sector. However, it is found that it takes two to eight years for water supply system (WSS) PPPs to be procured, likely prompting for higher transaction costs. This research...

The ongoing reform of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) underlines the pertinence of an old question that has received various and conflicting answers: is investment arbitration a public or a private method of dispute settlement? A key criticism levelled at investment treaty arbitration...

Contractual renegotiation is an emerging and significant theme in the context of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) due to its high incidence and potential impact on the sustainability of partnership models. This study presents a systematic review using a qualitative meta-synthesis method to...

While the blurring of boundaries between the public (office) and the private (home) spaces commenced much before the pandemic, the Covid-19 crisis has brough the related challenges to the forefront in the world of work. The anticipated rise in the prevalence of hybrid and remote working modes...

In commercial fisheries, the fishing decisions of a vessel are never really independent of the other vessels' decisions. Congestive externalities on fishing sites impact a vessel's behavior and create additional operation costs, while short-term stock effects, whereby fish stocks are locally...

Partnership between both public and private sectors has become an important strategy that governments establish and endorse for funding costly projects in particular. In essence, the collaborations between government and private enterprise purpose to attract investors and funding sources to...

The extent of premature death and ill health in the developing world is staggering. Death and ill health on such a scale are matters of concern in their own right. They also foster a brake on economic development. It was these twin concerns that led the international community to put health...

The object of this study were projects based on public-private partnership. The results of the state of public-private partnership projects in various sectors of the economy of the Central Asian countries and the assessment of the prospects for their development are presented.The study uses a...

While there could be debate as to the root causes of Africa’s dearth of infrastructure, it is uncontested that this infrastructure deficit widens each year – and the remedy to same, lies beyond the fiscal capacity of national governments and public entities. The foregoing necessitates...