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Financing Development Through PPPs: What Does This Mean for Inequalities

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Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs) are promoted by international development donors as a means of financing the Sustainable Development Goals. In the health sector, PPPs have been used for a range of purposes including financing the building of new healthcare infrastructure and the delivery of healthcare services. Yet despite the growth of health PPPs across the Global South, little attention has been given to their ability to address health inequalities. Critics argue that given their commercial imperative, health PPPs can potentially undermine the right to health and entrench existing inequalities. The chapter reflects on the potential challenges and opportunities offered by health PPPs in Latin America, before focusing on the case of Peru and asks how far PPPs can address the major challenges faced by a health system characterised by fragmentation and inequalities.

This chapter draws on a larger project focused on Health PPPs in Peru and I would like to acknowledge the work of Kate Bayliss, Océane Blavot, Rosella Falco, Camila Gianella, Ma José Romero, and Ruth Iguñiz Romero that enabled me to write this piece.

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Gideon, J. (2023). Financing Development Through PPPs: What Does This Mean for Inequalities. In: Tribe, M., Kararach, G. (eds) The Political Economy of Global Manufacturing, Business and Finance . International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25832-9_11

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