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Title Public private partnerships : success and failure factors for in-transition countries / edited by Paolo Urio
Published Lanham, MD : University Press of America, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 365 pages)
Contents Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; I. INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1. Origins, Objectives, and Methodology of the Research; II. THEORY AND PRACTICE OF PPPs: IS THE WESTERN EXPERIENCE USEFUL FOR IN-TRANSITION COUNTRIES?; Chapter 2. Under What Conditions Can Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) Improve Efficiency, Equity, Security and Sustainable Development?; Chapter 3. Questions, Risks and Challenges: Public-Private Partnerships in Western European Countries; Chapter 4. Public-Private Partnerships: A Quantitative Analysis
Summary Public-Private Partnerships aims to discover the conditions under which public private partnerships may provide a viable alternative to the provision of public services and infrastructures by the state, while achieving efficient, sustainable, peaceful, and equitable development in four transition countries: China, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. These countries have experienced command economy under communist rule for at least thirty years. They have only recently introduced market mechanisms. In spiteof a huge literature in favor of public private partnerships in the west, scientific empirical e
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Roads -- Developing countries -- Finance
Highway planning -- Developing countries
Public-private sector cooperation -- Developing countries
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Transportation.
TRANSPORTATION -- Public Transportation.
Highway planning
Public-private sector cooperation
Roads -- Finance
Developing countries
Form Electronic book
Author Urio, Paolo.
ISBN 9780761850717
0761850716