Critical Reflections on Public Private Partnerships

• Main Authors: Gideon, Jasmine, Unterhalter, Elaine
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2021; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
• Subjects: Africa; Aid; Bildungswesen; COVID-19 pandemic; Cross-sectoral comparative approach; Developing Countries; Development; Development-related policy; Donors; Economics and Development; Education; Entwicklungsländer; Gesundheitswesen; Healthcare; Housing; India; Infrastrukturfinanzierung; Latin America; Neoliberalism; PPPs; Private Sector; Public Finance; Public Private Partnerships; Public Services; Public-private sector cooperation; Public-private sector cooperation-Developing countries-Case studies; Wasserversorgung; Water; Welt; Wohnungswirtschaft; Öffentlich-private Partnerschaft; Öffentliche Dienstleistung; Water; Africa’s Higher Education; Tertiary Public Hospitals; PPPs; Social Reproduction; Tamil Nadu; Public Private Partnerships; PPP Phenomenon; Low Fee Private School; Latin America; PPP Arrangement; Civil Society; PPP Hospital; PPP Project; Education; Global PPPs; Development; UN; Private Higher Education Institutions; Aid; Water PPPs; Low Cost Private Schools; Private Sector; Africa; World Development Report; PPP Policy; Housing; UK Aid; India; Collaboration Schools; Education System; CDC Group; Van Waeyenberge; Donors; Healthcare; African Development Bank; Developing Countries
• ISBN: 9780367678067; 9780367235666; 0367678063; 0367235668
• DOI: 10.4324/9780429280450

This book argues that despite the hype within many policy circles, there is actually very little evidence to support the presumed benefits of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in reducing poverty and addressing inequalities in the provision of and access to public services. Taking a cross-sectoral comparative approach, this book investigates how PPPs have played out in practice, and what the implications have been for inequalities. Drawing on a range of empirical case studies in education, healthcare, housing, and water, the book picks apart the roles of PPPs as financing mechanisms in several international and national contexts and considers the similarities and differences between sectors. The global COVID-19 pandemic has raised significant questions about the future of social provision and through its analysis of the emergence and expansion of the role of PPPs, the book also makes a vital contribution to current discussion over this rapidly changing landscape. Overall, this wide-ranging guide to understanding and evaluating the role of PPPs in the global South will be useful to researchers within development, international relations, economics, and related fields, as well as to policy makers and practitioners working in development-related policy.