The PPP wave is more crucial to Africa than any other continent. The state in Africa is just moulding from decades of imperial rule. At the same time, worldwide the state surge of the Second World War is ending, and the private frontier is burgeoning. Therefore, a young moulding state surrounded by a burgeoning private sector must embrace PPP – recall, the public of Africa demand ever improving service thanks to the globalisation of technology.
Yet, scholarship on PPP is shallow and confused. Phenomenological observations are wielded as generalised truths. Why? Infrastructure is the domain of PPP. Is it the problem? Is the exigency of transaction in infrastructure forcing out scholarship? Put differently, is the big money of infrastructure transactions the problem? Look at health and agriculture. They feature more rigorous scholarship (see paper below).
The need for structure in PPP is urgent. Africa should lead. How?
Preprint The Non-Ergodic Africa: A Perspective of Transport Research
PPP can be a successful model for evolving infrastructure as long as the underlying contract has considered all incentives, risks and potential for conflicts of interest, as the attached seeks to show. With PPP having been tried in Western economies, hopefully African has many case studies from which to learn how to get it right first time.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/294181209_Ensuring_Public_Private_Partnership_PPP_success?_sg=BckuPhdp7mJswGwX_QmSbWfLa9i-rDEKTGvJ7B-rhEM4UALkfOlxxxxeknAdsOwMpnhGiXtQERvSUvkV2KBSyTcbtwuQYV2Yt2cnmotG.z1MF0aVoSTtwmC_iU7-B7kD2YMy0Dsa636Mo_e4wq35FRdBLFebE0LeAAx6au7wdIJXbSOswcSYioN2KaSb0cw
Thanks for your response. However, case studies do not yield generalisations. The best they offer are questions of insight. More so, the situation of Africa is non-ergodic: Article Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) on Moulding States: The No...
I presented a paper last month in South Africa which dwells on PPP as a probable panacea fro developing ecotourism resources in a state in Southeastern Nigeria. The truth is PPP seems to be complex but the earlier we look into it the better for us.
I will like to have your work and collaborate with for further studies.
Thank you for sharing your paper with us. I agree that PPP is the solution to remedy the challenge of massive infrastructural deficit that we find every where in Africa. However, how can we address the issue of government not honoring agreement(s)? How can we build more local capacity in government to ensure the right policy frameworks are put in place for PPP. What will be the mechanism to encourage more local investors instead of always looking at foreign investors.
Capacity - that's a challenge, Sand. However, we must start by detecting the false claims. Look out for the transaction hype. After, we need rigorous analysis knitting the state, society and the budding market. The universities are critical.
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