This report was produced by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE) led by Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Director. It is part of the multi-level governance Programme of Work of the OECD’s Regional Development Policy Committee.
The report is the outcome of a project initiated by the Korean Institute of Public Finance (KIPF). The OECD is grateful to Dr. Junghun Kim, Chair of the OECD Network on Fiscal Relations across Levels of Government and former Vice President of KIPF, for his continuous support to this project.
The report was co-ordinated and supervised by Dorothée Allain-Dupré, Head of Unit, Decentralisation, Public Investment and Subnational Finance. This unit is in the Economic Analysis, Statistics and Multi-level Governance Section, led by Rudiger Ahrend, in CFE.
The report was drafted with contributions from: Dorothée Allain-Dupré; Lee Mizell, Consultant (Chapters 1 and 3); Stephane Saussier, Professor of Economics, Sorbonne Business School, Director of the Economics of PPP research group (Chapter 2); and Jonathan Gifford, Professor at George Mason University and Director of the Center for Transportation Public-Private Partnership Policy with Morghan Transue, editor, George Mason University (Chapter 4). Comments on the draft chapters were received from Rudiger Ahrend, Claire Charbit, Isabelle Chatry, Ian Hawkesworth, Karen Maguire, Varinia Michalun, Ana Maria Ruiz, Camila Vammalle and Isidora Zapata from the OECD Secretariat. Thanks are also extended to Gilbert Probst and Lea Stadtler of the Geneva Public-Private Partnerships Centre for early input for Chapter 1.
The authors gratefully acknowledge the comments and inputs received from the Delegates of the OECD Regional Development Policy Committee and from the Senior Budget Officials Network of Senior PPP and Infrastructure Officials in March 2018.
Sincere thanks are due to the following persons or institutions who contributed to the different case studies:
France: The author would like to thank: Grégory Berkovicz, from the City Council of Caen; Christian Pierret, former State Minister and former Mayor of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges; and Damien Botteghi, Head of the Legal Affairs Directorate in the City of Paris. Comments received from Salim Bensmail, Director of the Mission d’appui au financement des infrastructure are also warmly acknowledged.
United Kingdom: Sincere thanks are extended to Andrew Bruce of Scottish Futures Trust, Alastair Watson of Local Partnerships, Professor David Heald of the University of Glasgow, and Hera Miah of the Public Private Partnerships Team, Infrastructure and Projects Authority, for their valuable insights and contributions to this case study.
United States: The authors gratefully acknowledge assistance in fact-checking and reviewing the document from the Virginia Office of Public-Private Partnerships.
Thanks are also due to Julie Harris for editing and formatting the manuscript and to Cicely Dupont-Nivore who prepared the final publication.