Public-Private Partnerships and Investment in Infrastructure

Vietnam’s Infrastructure Constraints: Public Investments and Public-Private Partnerships

Successful countries provide economy and society with infrastructure needed to maintain growth. Development experience suggests that investing 7 percent of GDP in infrastructure is the right order of magnitude for high and sustained growth. Over the last twelve years, the government of Vietnam was able to sustain infrastructure investment at 10 percent of GDP. This remarkably high level of inve...

Public-Private Partnerships

Finance and Public-Private Partnerships

A PPP bundles investment and service provision of infrastructure into a single long-term contract. A group of private investors finances and manages the construction of the project, then maintains and operates the facilities for a long period of usually 20 to 30 years, and at the end of the contract transfers the assets to the government. During the operation of the project, the private partner...

Building Social Infrastructure through Public-private Partnerships: the Case of Student Housing in Public Higher Education

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Public-private partnerships: an overview.

The development and marketing of medicines needed specifically to combat diseases of the developing world are commercially unattractive because the populations concerned are among the poorest on earth. Partnerships which bring together pharmaceutical companies, academics, not-for-profit organizations, philanthropists, governmental and inter-governmental agencies are an increasingly popular solu...