Public-private partnership: Lessons from the British approach

Economic Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 283-301

  Spackman, Michael ^a  

^a NERA ECONOMIC CONSULTING   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost of risk; PFI; PPPs; Procurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036755321     PISSN: 09393625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0939-3625(02)00048-1     Document Type: Article

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