The share of privately managed road infrastructure throughout Western Europe is relatively high; the progress among these countries is unequally developed. While private concessionaires have been established in England, France, Spain, Finland, France, Italy and Portugal since the late 1950s,...

PRIVATISATION AND THE USE OF PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS(PPP) MODELS IN THE PROVISION OF ROAD AND HIGHWAYINFRASTRUCTURE HAS CONTINUOUSLY GAINED IN IMPORTANCEWORLDWIDE AND IN PARTICULAR IN EUROPE DURING THE LASTYEARS. TRADITIONALLY CONSIDERED AS A TYPICAL PUBLIC DOMAIN,MORE AND MORE OF THE TASKS...

Drawing on a comprehensive panel data of 137 low income and developing countries, this study queries the macro-economic drivers of Public Private Partnership (PPP) in these countries. PPP is mainly used as a method to address infrastructure needs of nation states which cannot allocate their...