PPP status report

IT turns out that the Public Private Partnership program is not the way media has described it – slow, ineffectual, an obstacle course with so far no results. It had some hoops to jump through, but it is off and running.

Let us start by clarifying that PPP is not privatization but a contractual arrangement between government and a private party to partner together for development. Think classrooms, airports, highways, dams, even prison facilities. Those will always be in government hands and not privatized. In other words, it will be government infrastructure, the built assets that will make life for all better in basic services, mobility, communication, social institutions, future planning and everything else that governance owes its constituents in the social contract between them. The Constitution encourages the private sector to assist thegovernment to do infrastructure.