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Published in: Public Organization Review 2/2015

01-06-2015

Stakeholders Involvement or Public Subsidy of Private Interests? Appraising the Case of Public Private Partnerships in Pakistan

Authors: Iram A. Khan, Asad Ghalib, Farhad Hossain

Published in: Public Organization Review | Issue 2/2015

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Abstract

Government of Pakistan established several ‘publicly funded, privately managed’ companies based on the principles of Public Private Partnership. This paper analyses whether this unique PPP model protects the interests of both the public and private stakeholders, or is this just a means to public subsidizing of private interests? By drawing on evidence from primary and secondary sources, this paper finds that though some elements of PPP are present in these companies, they, as a whole, are not truly public private partnerships. They do, however, represent an innovative relationship between the public and private sectors.
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Footnotes
1
Pakistan Initiative for Strategic Development and Competitiveness.
 
2
CropLife International is a global federation representing the plant science industry. It supports a network of regional and national associations across 91 countries.
 
3
Government of Pakistan approved formal guidelines for Public Private Partnership in May 2010. Therefore, the discussion on PPP does not include that. It is also important to note that Ministry of Industries was the first to take initiative in this regard.
 
4
Ministry of Industries, Production & Special Initiatives was later bifurcated into three ministries, i.e. Ministry of Industries, Ministry of Production and Ministry of Special Initiatives. Under the 18th amendment, Ministry of Special Initiatives was abolished in 2010 and its functions delegated to the provinces. Ministry of Industries and Ministry of Production were again merged into one ministry by the new government in June 2013.
 
5
Urdu name of the strategy document developed and used by Pakistan Dairy Development Company which lliterally means “Milk River” or “River of Milk”.
 
6
Strategy developed by Pakistan Stone Development Company.
 
7
www.​pddc.​com.​pk accessed on June 2, 2010.
 
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Metadata
Title
Stakeholders Involvement or Public Subsidy of Private Interests? Appraising the Case of Public Private Partnerships in Pakistan
Authors
Iram A. Khan
Asad Ghalib
Farhad Hossain
Publication date
01-06-2015
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Public Organization Review / Issue 2/2015
Print ISSN: 1566-7170
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7098
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11115-014-0274-y

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