Delivering Local Infrastructure through PPPs: Evidence from the School Sector

Public-private partnerships and scale efficiency in Brazilian ports: Evidence from two-stage DEA analysis

“…This paper presents a benchmark and efficiency analysis of 27 major Brazilian ports based on data for 2012, putting their scale efficiencies into perspective in light of current PPPs, where public ports owned by Companhia Docas conceded the administrative rights of their terminals to private operators. Although recognizing the potential of PPP agreements, it is important to consider that some academic findings and empirical observations lead to mixed conclusions about their actual benefits (Cruz and Marques, 2012). This opens up opportunities to keep investigating the theme.…”

PPP projects in local infrastructure: evidence from schools in the Madrid region, Spain

“…In order to examine the most important factors in the delivery of schools through PPP projects in the Madrid region, we organized our analysis according to the four categories identified by Cruz and Marques (2012) as relevant factors that affect the outcome of PPP projects. We also examined the extensive literature about PPP projects in order to identify the main aspects within each one of these categories (see table 1).…”

“…Our research was particularly timely because most of the previous experiences in PPP projects for schools analysed in the literature have had negative outcomes, particularly in Denmark, Portugal and Ireland (Petersen, 2010;Cruz and Marques, 2012;Reeves, 2013). Moreover, other PPP projects granted in Spain during the last decade have had severe problems, most notably in the road sector but also in the healthcare sector (Rangel and Galende, 2010;Acerete et al, 2011;Vassallo et al, 2012).…”

Study on the Relationship between Service Quality and Governmental Subsidy for Public School where PPP is Applied

“…The difficulty is the commonweal character of public school, in which private sector is not easy to refinance. (Cruz, 2012).…”

“…The main purpose of this paper is to facilitate the usage of PPP at public schools. Due to the nature of common weal, Public Schools cannot refinance through service charge from delivering education activity (Cruz, 2012). Therefore, governmental subsidy is necessary throughout the life circle of PPP public schools (Hare, 2013), (Chattopadhay, 2014).…”