PPPs in Emerging Markets Summit

20/10/2016

Nepal: NPC to set up Public-Private Partnership Centre
The initiatives would be taken through the Centre to enhance the private sectors’ active involvement in the infrastructural development.
http://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/national-planning-commission-to-set-up-public-private-partnership-centre/

National Planning Commission is establishing Public-Private Partnership Centre aimed at pursuing infrastructure development through public & private sectors

20/10/2016

Public-private-partnership to be outlined next week
http://timesofoman.com/article/94597/Business/Public-private-partnership-investment-plan-next-week

Oman’s strategic economic plan and the priority areas for investment through public-private-partnership will be outlined at the Outlook Oman conference, on October 24

28/09/2016

http://www.thedailystar.net/business/adb-approve-1b-bangladesh-rail-project-1290178

21/09/2016

The National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) Board has approved nine projects worth about ₱171 billion. Six of the nine projects are outside Metro Manila.

21/09/2016

PPP as panacea for Nigeria’s airport debacle
https://www.today.ng/opinion/183805/ppp-panacea-nigerias-airport-debacle

That the Federal Government is insisting on concessioning the four biggest airports in the country to private investors is a serious indictment of the managers of the facilities, who could not manage them to profitability. Any discerning mind will agree with the government that airports across the c...

21/09/2016

Megawide readies war chest for airport projects
http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=Corporate&title=megawide-readies-war-chest-for-airport-projects&id=133620

MEGAWIDE Construction Corp. is building its war chest to take on more public-private partnerships (PPP), particularly for the construction and operation of airports across the country.

21/09/2016

Israel plans PPP tender for up to 500 MW solar
https://renewables.seenews.com/news/israel-plans-ppp-tender-for-up-to-500-mw-solar-540180

September 19 (SeeNews) - Israel will hold a tender for a solar project of up to 500 MW to be built near the city of Dimona in the Negev desert, the Ministry of Finance (M*F) said on Monday.The winner in the tender  build the solar photovoltaic (PV) complex under the Public Private Partnership (...

21/09/2016

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-19/china-said-to-plan-150-billion-of-added-public-private-projects

China plans to prize open private firms’ wallets with a new batch of investment projects backed by the government.

14/09/2016

Why is Karnataka handing over a public hospital in Udupi to a UAE company for the next 60 years? http://scroll.in/pulse/816337/why-is-karnataka-handing-over-a-public-hospital-in-udupi-to-a-uae-company-for-the-next-60-years

Public-private partnerships have failed to deliver healthcare in Karnataka over and again. What explains the state government's decision?

14/09/2016

On any cursory look at our country's needs, infrastructure comes up high on the list. PPPs in Emerging Markets Summit http://allafrica.com/stories/201609130630.html

Opinion - A few weeks ago President Muhammadu Buhari was in Nairobi Kenya to attend the Tokyo International Conference on African Development, 'TICAD 6' along with a good number of African Presidents, Ministers and the Japanese President Shinzo Abe who was the co-convener. TICAD was launched in 1993...

28/07/2016

Philippines to award 15 PPP infrastructure projects by 2016 http://www.urbangateway.org/content/news/philippines-award-15-ppp-infrastructure-projects-2016

The Philippines will put two infrastructure projects worth P100.3 billion ($2.3 billion) up for tender in April and will push through about a dozen other projects before President Benigno Aquino steps down in three years' time, a government official said. The Cavite-Laguna Expressway project worth P...

25/07/2016

PPPs in Emerging Markets Summit http://www.meed.com/sectors/finance/project-finance/cost-is-paramount-for-ppp-schemes/5006503.fullarticle

Wastewater PPP troubles in Egypt highlight wider drawbacks