The political perception of New Zealand's broadband market performance as 'poor' has underpinned many significant changes to the telecommunications policy and regulatory environments since 2001. Most recently, this has been manifested in substantial government subsidies by way of public-private...

Indonesia.s infrastructure is in poor shape, having suffered from protracted under-investment since the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, and constraints growth potential. This paper focuses on the current state of the regulatory framework and discusses different options for improvement...

The subject of the article is deliberations on the impact of public-private partnership on the implementation of the principle of sustainable development in local government units. The legislator imposes the obligation to perform public tasks on the local government units. They include duties...

The term "public-private partnership" carries a specific meaning. First, it relates to the provision of public services or public infrastructure. Second, it necessitates the transfer of risk between partners. Arrangements that do not include these two concepts are not technically "public-private...

Public-private partnerships (PPP's) have been successfully implemented in a large number of basic infrastructure projects and in the provisioning of public services; and this model has been found to achieve better cost-efficiencies and improved delivery of customer services under certain...

This article, a chapter from a three-volume study of the effects of globalization on domestic law, society and economics, considers implications for domestic administration when ''globalization comes home'' in the form of terrorism risk management. Specifically, it explores tensions between the...

Under what conditions may public-private partnerships (PPPs or P3s) involved in multilateral development policy advance public interest goals in global intellectual property? This chapter begins to assess how non-profit partners within certain development policy PPPs generate and/or implement...

The concession of public services without the concession of the related public works was viewed as an exception. The public services contract was considered to rank first among the administrative contracts. The European Court of Justice ruled that establishing of the nature of a contract –...

The overview image of the public-private partnership is represented by cooperation between the public and private actors to carry out the activities of public interest, cooperation based on the capacities of each partner to allocate properly the resources, risks and benefits. The main elements...

The following paper focuses on the discussion on the two issues – the privatization as the transfer of ownership rights to the public wealth onto a private entity and the privatization of public tasks as the manifestation of the deviation of public law entities to perform tasks for the benefit...