Public-Private Partnerships in Developing Countries : The Emerging Evidence-based Critique

Advocates of public-private partnerships (PPPs) for infrastructure services in developing countries have long battled criticism of these arrangements by civil society groups. The view among PPP advocates generally has been that these criticisms are mostly ideological polemics thatmix opinion with...

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Main Author:	Leigland, James
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2019
Subjects:	PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32176

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spelling	okr-10986-321762021-05-25T10:54:42Z Public-Private Partnerships in Developing Countries : The Emerging Evidence-based Critique Leigland, James PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT Advocates of public-private partnerships (PPPs) for infrastructure services in developing countries have long battled criticism of these arrangements by civil society groups. The view among PPP advocates generally has been that these criticisms are mostly ideological polemics thatmix opinion with selected but often misinterpreted facts. But over the last two decades, as the experience with PPPs has increased in both developed and developing countries, a different kind of critique has emerged, one that is based on non-ideological empirical research, and is sometimes expressed by PPP advocates. These studies often focus on individual aspects of PPPs, and usually do not claim to be “PPP evaluations” or express opinions on the overall value of PPPs. Taken together, a powerful, evidence-based critique of PPPs is emerging, but one that ismoremeasured thanmuch of the criticism of the last two decades. This new critique recognizes many cases in which PPPs have not been successful, but also some situations in which PPPs can generate value for money. Because of its critical tone, some of this research is now regularly cited by the civil society critics of PPPs, giving their arguments more weight than was the case a decade ago. This paper attempts to summarize some of the most compelling examples of this kind of emerging critique, and uses the summary to assess the practicality of the G20’s recent advocacy of large, “transformational” PPPs as tools for dealing effectively with infrastructure challenges in low-income countries. 2019-08-05T19:56:31Z 2019-08-05T19:56:31Z 2018-02-01 Journal Article World Bank Research Observer 1564-6971 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32176 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research
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topic	PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT
spellingShingle	PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT Leigland, James Public-Private Partnerships in Developing Countries : The Emerging Evidence-based Critique
description	Advocates of public-private partnerships (PPPs) for infrastructure services in developing countries have long battled criticism of these arrangements by civil society groups. The view among PPP advocates generally has been that these criticisms are mostly ideological polemics thatmix opinion with selected but often misinterpreted facts. But over the last two decades, as the experience with PPPs has increased in both developed and developing countries, a different kind of critique has emerged, one that is based on non-ideological empirical research, and is sometimes expressed by PPP advocates. These studies often focus on individual aspects of PPPs, and usually do not claim to be “PPP evaluations” or express opinions on the overall value of PPPs. Taken together, a powerful, evidence-based critique of PPPs is emerging, but one that ismoremeasured thanmuch of the criticism of the last two decades. This new critique recognizes many cases in which PPPs have not been successful, but also some situations in which PPPs can generate value for money. Because of its critical tone, some of this research is now regularly cited by the civil society critics of PPPs, giving their arguments more weight than was the case a decade ago. This paper attempts to summarize some of the most compelling examples of this kind of emerging critique, and uses the summary to assess the practicality of the G20’s recent advocacy of large, “transformational” PPPs as tools for dealing effectively with infrastructure challenges in low-income countries.
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title	Public-Private Partnerships in Developing Countries : The Emerging Evidence-based Critique
title_short	Public-Private Partnerships in Developing Countries : The Emerging Evidence-based Critique
title_full	Public-Private Partnerships in Developing Countries : The Emerging Evidence-based Critique
title_fullStr	Public-Private Partnerships in Developing Countries : The Emerging Evidence-based Critique
title_full_unstemmed	Public-Private Partnerships in Developing Countries : The Emerging Evidence-based Critique
title_sort	public-private partnerships in developing countries : the emerging evidence-based critique
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Public-Private Partnerships in Developing Countries : The Emerging Evidence-based Critique

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