This paper examines the Risk Management and Contract Design aspects of Public Private Partnerships. Part I begins with the question: How is a public private partnership distinct from public-private interaction over history? From this question, it identifies risk allocation and risk sharing as a...

This paper is a thematic review of the corpus of literature on Public Private Partnerships. I begin with the objectives of the review (Hart, 2008); and move to the process followed and difficulties encountered on the way. Constructing a map of extant literature (Creswell, 1994) as comprising of...

This paper examines the Risk Management and Contract Design aspects of Public Private Partnerships. Part I begins with the question: How is a public private partnership distinct from public-private interaction over history? From this question, it identifies risk allocation and risk sharing as a...

The agenda is as follows. We begin with why PPPs are relevant to you, why are you here today at all. PPPs are a complex phenomenon, so our next step is to understand what PPP is all about, is it just a fad, or a useful policy option? This leads us to understand PPPs from two perspectives, first...

1. The Motivation: Public Private Partnerships are attracting attention in both scholarly and policy discourses. They are an increasingly popular public policy option in developed and developing economies. If PPPs are here to stay, we need to know what happens in a real life scenario. Academic...