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Stakeholders Involvement or Public Subsidy of Private Interests? Appraising the Case of Public Private Partnerships in Pakistan

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Government of Pakistan established several ‘publicly funded, privately managed’ companies based on the principles of Public Private Partnership. This paper analyses whether this unique PPP model protects the interests of both the public and private stakeholders, or is this just a means to public subsidizing of private interests? By drawing on evidence from primary and secondary sources, this paper finds that though some elements of PPP are present in these companies, they, as a whole, are not truly public private partnerships. They do, however, represent an innovative relationship between the public and private sectors.

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Notes

  1. Pakistan Initiative for Strategic Development and Competitiveness.

  2. CropLife International is a global federation representing the plant science industry. It supports a network of regional and national associations across 91 countries.

  3. Ministry of Industries, Production & Special Initiatives was later bifurcated into three ministries, i.e. Ministry of Industries, Ministry of Production and Ministry of Special Initiatives. Under the 18th amendment, Ministry of Special Initiatives was abolished in 2010 and its functions delegated to the provinces. Ministry of Industries and Ministry of Production were again merged into one ministry by the new government in June 2013.

  4. Urdu name of the strategy document developed and used by Pakistan Dairy Development Company which lliterally means “Milk River” or “River of Milk”.

  5. Strategy developed by Pakistan Stone Development Company.

  6. www.pddc.com.pk accessed on June 2, 2010.

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The Authors would like to thank Mr. Geoff Walker, ex-CEO of a public sector company and anonymous referee(s) for their contribution to the paper.

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  1. Cabinet Division, Cabinet Secretariat, Constitution Avenue, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Iram A. Khan

  2. Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Iram A. Khan

  3. Liverpool Hope Business School, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, LHBS 001, UK

    Asad Ghalib

  4. Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

    Asad Ghalib

  5. Institute for Development Policy and Management, School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

    Farhad Hossain

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Khan, I.A., Ghalib, A. & Hossain, F. Stakeholders Involvement or Public Subsidy of Private Interests? Appraising the Case of Public Private Partnerships in Pakistan. Public Organiz Rev 15, 281–296 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11115-014-0274-y

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