Adoption Of Public Private Partnerships Research Articles

Slow Adoption of PPPs in Developing Countries: Survey of Nigerian Construction Professionals

The growth and development of any nation is greatly dependent on the availability of basic public infrastructure and services. The public Private Partnerships (PPP) has been in use for almost two decades helping developed countries improve their infrastructure stock to achieve their economic goals. Despite the link between infrastructure availability and economic growth, developing countries are yet to achieve adequate infrastructure provision to assist their quest for economic growth. Therefore, this study set out to determine the reasons for the slow adoption of the PPP procurement strategy in Nigeria through a survey of construction professionals. It was found that corruption in government was the major problem. Factor analysis further revealed five factors namely Government policy on infrastructure, Lack of consensus among policy makers, Political instability, Lack of understanding of the PPP concept, and High participation costs.

Are Private Investments Serving the Poor in India?

Public–private partnership (PPP) was introduced as a tool to overcome the financial resource scarcity of developing nation-states to deliver infrastructure. While researchers have extensively focused on the procedural adoption of PPP in developing nations, the distributional side of PPP has received very little attention. This article investigates whether the central government has been successful in directing PPP towards the poor regions in India. This study shows that PPP in India contributes towards the process of uneven development.

Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in Housing Provision in Lagos Megacity Region, Nigeria

The adoption of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in housing provision in Nigeria is intended to increase urban housing stock and address housing affordability and accessibility challenges. However, to date, very little is known about how PPP housing schemes have addressed these challenges. This paper therefore explores the extent to which PPP in housing provision has so far contributed to solving the housing challenges in the Lagos Megacity Region of Nigeria. The paper presents the result of a cross-sectional survey of operators of PPP schemes and housing consumers in the study area. The results show that the PPP approach is basically a formal joint venture partnership involving government providing land at subsidised cost and the provision of serviced plots or construction of housing units by private sector partners. Although the approach has provided affordable serviced plots and housing units for a few high income elites, it has contributed very little to the volume of housing units available to low-income people in Lagos. The paper suggests the adoption of a uniform policy on PPP in housing provision and the establishment of a co-ordinating agency. In addition, government involvement in the provision of infrastructure in PPP housing schemes could increase the affordable housing stock accessible to low-income people in the city.

Institutional public private partnerships for core health services: evidence from Italy

BackgroundPublic-private partnerships (PPPs) are potential instruments to enable private collaboration in the health sector. Despite theoretical debate, empirical analyses have thus far tended to focus on the contractual or project dimension, overlooking institutional PPPs, i.e., formal legal entities run by proper corporate-governance mechanisms and jointly owned by public and private parties for the provision of public-health goods. This work aims to fill this gap by carrying out a comparative analysis of the reasons for the adoption of institutional PPPs and the governance and managerial features necessary to establish them as appropriate arrangements for public-health services provisions.MethodsA qualitative analysis is carried out on experiences of institutional PPPs within the Italian National Health Service (Sistema Sanitario Nazionale, SSN). The research question is addressed through a contextual and comparative embedded case study design, assuming the entire population of PPPs (4) currently in force in one Italian region as the unit of analysis: (i) a rehabilitation hospital, (ii), an orthopaedic-centre, (iii) a primary care and ambulatory services facility, and (iv) a health- and social-care facility. Internal validity is guaranteed by the triangulation of sources in the data collection phase, which included archival and interview data.ResultsFour governance and managerial issues were found to be critical in determining the positive performance of the case examined: (i) a strategic market orientation to a specialised service area with sufficient potential demand, (ii) the allocation of public capital assets and the consistent financial involvement of the private partner, (iii) the adoption of private administrative procedures in a regulated setting while guaranteeing the respect of public administration principles, and (iv) clear regulation of the workforce to align the contracts with the organisational culture.ConclusionsFindings suggests that institutional PPPs enable national health services to reap great benefits when introduced as a complement to the traditional public-service provisions for a defined set of services and goals.

Isomorphism: An Explanation for the Popularity of Public-Private Partnerships?

While Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are a popular public policy tool, there is evidence to suggest that they often fail to deliver value for money, a key objective. Focusing on the use of PPPs in education in Ireland, this paper draws on perspectives from institutional and isomorphic theories to illuminate the use of PPPs as a modernisation tool of government. It finds that, while the adoption of PPPs has been characterised by difficulties, policy makers persist with their use. This is attributed to coercive isomorphic pressures in the case of Northern Ireland and mimetic isomorphic pressures in the Republic of Ireland.

Risks in Public-Private Partnerships: Shifting, Sharing or Shirking?

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have now become a popular way of providing infrastructure. A commercial relationship between government and business is not necessarily a new phenomenon, but wholesale use by governments of long term, sophisticated contract techniques on private credit is. Better efficiency in infrastructure provision and strengthened monitoring and accountability are promised, along with stronger business and investor confidence. A major part of the forecast benefits from the private funding of public infrastructure arises through the transfer of risks from the public sector to private parties. This article aims to probe on an empirical basis the realities of risk transfers in PPPs and to compare this experience against both the rhetoric of project proponents and the formal contract conditions. Several conceptual issues are addressed and a case study 1$ used to illustrate some empirical experience on risk transfers under PPP arrangements Experience shows the extent to which risks were shifted or shared as planned, or whether governments ideologically predisposed to the adoption of PPPs shirked accountability for future risks by signing up to PPP deals favoring financiers. Huge financial resources and long term PPP contracts of up to several decades both make it critical to better understand the nature of risk transfers and the extent to which actual risk bearing experience differs from advocate rhetoric.