The existing problem in the construction industry, i.e. owner or client dissatisfaction in terms of prolonged delivery times, exceeded budgets and the non-attainment of quality standards. Real problems were substantiated by the emphasis on contractual responsibilities and risks. Construction investments are generally believed to be expensive. When contractual processes are in disarray, owners’ ...

Regarding the fiscal constraints and management difficulties of public hospitals, several countries have used public private partnership model to improve their health facilities. Public private partnership enables using public resources and private investment and expertise in a combined structure. Moheb hospital is the first Iranian hospital managed according to public private-partnership. The ...

Slum redevelopment is a difficult and complex process that needs multidisciplinary approach involving government organizations, non-governmental the corporate sector, community. Governments have increasingly invited private financiers investors to take care of public provisions, making public-private partnerships (PPPs) new perspective for development sector. reconstruction efforts are being ca...

The delivery of facilities management (FM) services through the Public-Private Partnership scheme has been increasing in recent years. long-term success this partnership depends mainly on choice best-suited private partner. However, an issue regarding unavailability evaluation criteria was discovered when selecting best FM service providers within scheme. Preliminary research shows that are fun...

Nigeria has had several housing programmes and policies geared towards the provision of housing her citizens since colonial era to the post-colonial period. The Nigerian Government had always been directly involved in the provision of housing for the public servants and with the advent of the public-private partnership initiative, the low-income public servants’ acceptability of this new housin...

It provides background information on the role of capital markets in PPP financing, and their principal advantages and disadvantages compared to traditional bank financing. It then reviews the dominant delivery model for PPP bonds, the so-called " monoline model " , and the impact of the downgrading of the monolines' rating following the credit crisis. The paper further analyses the reasons why...

OBJECTIVE The state of Gujarat in India (population 60 million) has implemented a public-private partnership (PPP) with private obstetricians called the Chiranjeevi Yojana (CY) since 2006. This study investigated the adequacy of basic and comprehensive emergency obstetric care (BEmOC and CEmOC) services through the public and private sectors with reference to the United Nations (UN) guidelines....

Market-led solutions have been advocated as a solution to the myriad of problems that smallholders face. This paper discussed Public-Private Partnership (PPP), Market for Poor (M4P) and Public-Private- Producer (4P) models. Though all three named models advantages, they however, do not adequately address need expectation producers. Hence, 4P+ model (producer-private-public partnership) is propo...