Download or read book Rethinking Public Private Partnerships written by Lewis, Mervyn K. and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-27 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public private partnerships (PPPs) have been a controversial approach to procuring public infrastructure services. Against a background of recent trenchant criticism of PPPs, Mervyn K. Lewis, a leading scholar in the area, re-examines their utility. He questions what PPPs can and cannot do, why governments choose this route and whether PPPs can ever be good value for money.