CONCESSIONS AS NEW POSSIBILITIES FOR PUBLIC SERVICE MANAGEMENT - CASE OF ALBANIA

The last decades of the development, market economies have known a new source of funding and efficiency of public projects and those of strategic importance. This new source is found on the partnership between the public and private sectors. The study of relationships and issues associated with this public-private partnership (PPP) was a necessity identified several years ago in Albania, and at the moment this topic was the most discussed in Albanian politics. At that time, the government undertook a series of legislative initiatives to design a contemporary legislation in line with international standards.A large number of concession contracts for the construction of hydropower plants nationwide turned the term "concession" in one of the most used words, not only by the Albanian policy makers and decision makers, but also by business people or those of civil society, who started debating about concessions giving it the importance of a theme of the day.