Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) are partnerships between the public and private sectors in a particular state.This model is used in countries like Norway,Denmark, Netherlands, France and Germany. Eurostat, the statistics office of the EU, has issued a statement indicating the nature and degree of risk that must be transferred from the public sector to the private sector in order to keep a PPP project off a governments balance sheet under the Stability and Growth Pact. This graphics depicts that PPP's are largely about the transfer of risk from the public sector to the private sector. |
