Title: Privatized Infrastructure : The Role of Government Author: Adrian Smith ISBN: 0727727125 / 9780727727121 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 256 Publisher: Thomas Telford Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
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Contents
This book examines the major aspects of the relationship between government and the private sector in the provision of high quality, sustainable, and affordable privately funded infrastructure projects. The form of this partnership is often seen as a major determinant of the project risk distribution among the various parties involved, and will thus be crucial in attracting both high quality developers/operators and external institutional funding. Proper consideration of this issue, bearing in mind geographical location, the ruling political and economic climate, and the project characteristics is therefore perceived to be one of the most crucial aspects of the procurement process.
In the UK the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) has concentrated primarily upon developing a partnership in project funding, but elsewhere in the world the long-term use of concession contracts and the build/operate/transfer (BOT) family of approaches have shown the need for partnerships which go beyond simply project funding.
Some of the basic issues concerning the structure of the public/private partnership were introduced in the author`s earlier title Privatized infrastructure: the BOT approach. This new book, Privatized infrastructure: the role of Government, develops these concepts further through a combination theory and case studies of completed projects drawn from various parts of the world over and extended period of time.
Privatized infrastructure: the role of Government begins with a historical review of the development of government`s role in the provision of primary infrastructure, and goes on to examine the relevance of this role in present day projects. It specifically considers key issues which might give rise to conflicts of interest such as project promotion, evaluation and responsibility.
The book is a timely arrival in a rapidly developing field of growing interest for the academic and professional engineer worldwide. It will be of interest to students as well as to practitioners and contractors who are either interested in or already involved in this type of work.
Preface
Chapter 1 : Infrastructure, Politics and Economics Chapter 2 : A Brief History of The Development of Privatized Infrastructure Chapter 3 : The Development of The Role of Government Chapter 4 : Case Study 1 - Chinese Railways: A Case Study in Cross Cultural Capitalist Infrastructure Development Chapter 5 : Models For Privatization Chapter 6 : The Functional Role of Government in `Partnership` Projects Chapter 7 : Government as Facilitator, Customer and Promoter Chapter 8 : Case Study 2 - Build, Operate and Transfer Schemes for Transport Infrastructure in Hong Kong: 25 Years of Incremental Development Chapter 9 : Philosophical Aspects of The Public/Private Sector Partnership Chapter 10 : Case Study 3 - When Government Changes Its Mind Chapter 11 : Initial Project Evaluation Chapter 12 : Bid Evaluation Chapter 13 : Case Study 4 - The Channel Tunne : A Case Study in Promotion and Responsibility Chapter 14 : The British Private Finance Initiative Chapter 15 : The Developing World