Public-Private Partnership Contracts Implementation

A partnership is generally characterized as a kind of cooperation between the public and the private sectors by establishing contractual relationships. By this contractual relationship, the private sector is allowed to provide goods and services, formerly produced by the public sector. This kind of contracts is for a certain period set by a public entity and a private sector partner, in which the latter invests resources in at least one of the following works: construction, implementation, maintenance, rehabilitation, development, management or operation of a public facility or projects belonging to a public entity. Therefore, countries coming out form crises and conflicts are in high need of this sort of cooperation: the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) contracts. On the one hand, this book explains the conceptual framework of PPP contracts, where the complexity of these contracts lie in their implementation. On the other hand, the book shows the important role of PPP contracts in being an investment tool for reconstruction...