Private-Public Partnerships: Policy and Experience

PPP: The Instrument for Transforming the Public Services; A.Ghobadian, D.Gallear, N.O'Regan & H.Viney PART I: PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP (PPP): CONTEXT, PURPOSE AND PERSPECTIVES Public-Private Partnerships and Private Finance; Rt Hon J.Redwood MP New Labour and PPPs; D.Corry PART II: ASSESSING THE APPROPRIATENESS OF PPP AND OVERCOMING POTENTIAL RESISTANCE Peterborough Hospitals NHS Trust; C.Morton & C.Banks Public Private Partnerships; K.Faulkner Making PPPs Accountable: The Case of Ireland; M.Kay & E.Reeves PART III: FINDING THE RIGHT PARTNER Finding the Right Partner; C.Foster Finding the Right Partner: The Partners' Perspective; R.Kerley PART IV: BUILDING A SUCCESSFUL PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP Public-Private Partnerships and Regional Economic Development; T.Cockerill Diversity and Contestability: The Key to Public Service Modernisation; J.Tizard Public-Private Partnership: The Right Form at the Wrong Moment? An Analysis of Institutional and Strategic Obstacles; E-H.Klijn & G.R.Teisman PART V: PRIVATE FINANCE INITIATIVE (PFI) An Examination of the Private Finance Initiative: Has the PFI Initiative Assisted in the Investment in our Public Services or Has It Been an Expensive Diversion?; T.Haggar Risk Management and the Private Finance Initiative; R.Ball, M.Heafey & D.King Why is it so Expensive to Bid for PFI Contracts?; A.Knight & I.Fox PART VI: PPP - CONTRACTUAL ISSUES PPP Contractual Issues: Big Promises and Unfinished Business; G.A.Hodge & D.M.Bowman PART VII: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE AND EXPERIENCE Public-Private Partnerships in Western Europe and the USA: New Growths from Old Roots; T.Bovaird Public-Private Partnerships in Service Delivery in Developing Countries: Jamaican Examples; P.D.Osei PART VIII: PPP - THE WAY FORWARD Future of Public-Private Partnership; A.Ghobadian, D.Gallear, H.Viney & N.O'Regan