PPPs: The passage of time permits a sober reflection

Economic Affairs

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 33-39

  Hodge, Graeme A ^a   Greve, Carsten ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

International evidence; Long termin frastructure contracts; LTICs; PFI; PPPs; Procurement; Public private partnerships; Value for money; VfM

Indexed keywords

EID: 62249155414     PISSN: 02650665     EISSN: 14680270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0270.2009.01864.x     Document Type: Article

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