Partnerships in public, private enterprises have turned into a disaster

Serious people, trying to handle specific problems, often come up with good ideas which sometimes work well in one country but face challenges in another, partly because of socio-political operating environments. One such idea is the Public Private Partnership (PPP), meant to speed the delivery of public goods beyond available state capabilities.

Ordinarily, the State should provide basic public goods including infrastructure, access to utilities and educational and health services. Since states do not always have the capacity, they outsource those services to willing providers.