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Making PPPs work in developing countries: overcoming common challenges

Anvuur, A; Kumaraswamy, M; (2006) Making PPPs work in developing countries: overcoming common challenges. In: Serpell, A, (ed.) CIB: Rotterdam, Netherlands. Green open access

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Abstract

Public private partnership (PPP) has emerged as a more acceptable and beneficial alternative to privatization. Furthermore, the special mind-sets and specific skill-sets needed for successful PPPs are now impacting on the development of construction industries the world over. While their benefits may seem apparent, and of great promise to developing countries in particular, PPP projects present major challenges which, if not adequately addressed, may undermine their very purpose and also lead to a distortion of public sector priorities when choosing which infrastructure to develop. The paper explores these challenges and the implications for developing countries. It also provides an overview of a framework for a Decision Support System (DSS) designed to address the shortfalls in reliable knowledge about when (under what conditions) and how (in what form) PPPs should be mobilised. The DSS framework is being developed as part of an ongoing R&D project that aims to help public procuring agents achieve ‘value for money’ in PPP projects by (1) assisting in ‘better value’ decisions on the ‘PPP-iability’ of proposed projects and (2) providing a means for the live capture, codification and quick transfer of experiential knowledge.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Making PPPs work in developing countries: overcoming common challenges
ISBN-13: 9789561408647
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: http://www.cibworld.info/site/home/index.html
Additional information: Symposium held at Santiago, Chile between 18-20 January 2006. Publisher acronym CIB is an abbreviation of the (former) French name: "Conseil International du Bâtiment” Conference weblink is: http://www2.ing.puc.cl/CIBW1072006/ Full text can be found at: http://www.irbnet.de/daten/iconda/CIB1908.pdf
Keywords: Decision Support System, developing countries, Hong Kong, PPP, public private partnership
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett Sch of Const and Proj Mgt
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/20488
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