Public-Private Partnerships (eBook, ePUB)

Success and Failure Factors for In-Transition Countries
Redaktion: Urio, Paolo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 spite of a huge literature in favor of public private partnerships in the west, scientific empirical evidence is generally mixed and balanced. Success or failure depends upon many factors that need to be identified and analyzed. Moreover, economic performance may be achieved at the expense of other criteria such as equity, public scrutiny, and accountability. This research (a cooperation between the University of Geneva and the United Nations) is the first attempt to evaluate public private partnerships based upon a review of the literature in Europe, documentary analysis, and in-depth interviews in the four countries with representatives of the public and private sectors, as well civil society organizations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761850717
• Artikelnr.: 38485183

Autorenporträt

Paolo Urio is professor emeritus of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland. He has been dean of his faculty and director of the Master in Public Management. From 1998 to 2003, he directed the Sino-Swiss Management Training Program in the Public Sector of China that trained more than 400 Chinese senior civil servants and Party senior cadres. Currently, he maintains cooperation with the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University (Beijing) and the School of Public Administration at Renmin University (Beijing). He is the author of Reconciling State, Market and Society in China: The Long March Toward Prosperity (Routledge, 2010), which deals with China's reform process.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 List of Tables
Chapter 2 List of Figures
Chapter 3 List of Boxes
Chapter 4 Preface and Acknowledgements
Chapter 6 Introduction
Chapter 7 Chapter 1: Origins, Objectives, and Methodology of the Research
Part 8 Part I: Theory and Practice of PPPs: is the Western Experience
Useful for In-Transition Countries?
Chapter 9 Chapter 2: Under What Conditions Can Public-Private-Partnerships
(PPPs) Improve Efficiency, Equity, Security, and Sustainable Development in
Countries at the pre-PPP Stage?
Chapter 10 Chapter 3: Questions, Risks, and Challenges: Public-Private
Partnerships in Western European Countries
Chapter 11 Chapter 4: Public-Private Partnerships: A Quantitative Analysis
Part 12 Part II: PPPs in-transition countries: Favorable Conditions and
Contributions to Efficiency, Sustainability, Equity, and Security
Chapter 13 Chapter 5: The Future of PPPs in Poland: A Preliminary
Assessment
Chapter 14 Chapter 6: PPPs in the Russian Federation
Chapter 15 Chapter 7: The Future of PPPs in Ukraine
Chapter 16 Chapter 8: The Future of PPPs in China: A Preliminary Assessment
Chapter 17 Conclusion
Chapter 18 Chapter 9: PPPs in In-transition Countries: Prospects and Limits
for the Improvement of Efficiency, Sustainability, Equity, and Security
Chapter 19 About the Editor and Authors