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Public–private partnerships (PPPs) in local services: risk-sharing and private delivery of water services in Spain
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In this article, the authors examined the experiences with construction and operation of 131 PPP wastewater treatment plants in the region of Aragon, Spain and highlighted how an inadequate management of construction risk and unsuitable transfer of demand and revenue risk resulted in significant time delays in execution of the PPP projects.Abstract:
Local governments are increasingly utilising the public–private partnership (PPP) model as a means of organising service delivery in the public–private domain. This article examines the experiences with construction and operation of 131 PPP wastewater treatment plants in the region of Aragon, Spain. The study highlights how an inadequate management of construction risk and unsuitable transfer of demand and revenue risk resulted in significant time delays in execution of the PPP projects. The research also shows how the involvement of public bodies at local, regional and national level further added to the complexity of implementing the projects. The findings contribute to the literature on local service delivery and provide insights regarding risk transfer in long-term PPP contracts for the delivery of local services in general and water services in particular.read more
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Public-Private Partnerships: An International Performance Review
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that evaluations thus far point to contradictory results regarding their effectiveness, and that greater care is needed to strengthen future evaluations and conduct such assessments away from the policy cheerleaders.
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Evaluating the risks of public private partnerships for infrastructure projects
Darrin Grimsey,Mervyn K. Lewis +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of a waste water treatment facility in Scotland is presented, which is typical of most PPP projects in terms of low equity in the project vehicle and a reliance on direct revenues to cover operating and capital costs.
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Water for Life: The Impact of the Privatization of Water Services on Child Mortality
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Risk allocation in the private provision of public infrastructure
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a case study of the controversial $920 million New Southern Railway project in Sydney, Australia and analyze the rationale behind decisions about risk distributions between public and private sectors and their consequences.
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