EFFICIENCY OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IN INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT: ANALYSIS AND PROSPECTS

Abstract

In 2022, the magnitude of investments in Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) within the infrastructure sector demonstrated a gradual resurgence. Beyond the well-established practice of attracting significant PPP investments in developed nations, there has been a notable increase in the engagement of middle-income countries in the utilization of public-private collaborative mechanisms for the advancement of their infrastructure. Among the sectors, transportation, and communications have consistently maintained a prominent position in terms of both investment influx and the quantity of successfully executed infrastructure projects on a global scale. Quantitative performance indicators within the sphere of PPP projects, encompassing metrics such as the count, monetary volume, and the proportion of different agreement types, manifest encouraging trends in the execution of infrastructure PPP initiatives. Conversely, the qualitative outcomes of this investigation reveal a spectrum of issues that are intrinsically linked to CSFs. These CSFs represent the principal benchmarks that exert a direct influence on the efficiency of PPP projects concerning their established objectives, processes, and management framework. The research undertaken by the authors has successfully identified a range of disparities in the challenges faced during the implementation of PPP projects across diverse nations, notwithstanding the similarity in the underlying mechanisms of cooperation.