Rath on 25 April 2011
It must be strongly noted that there are definite differences between a public-private partnership and purely private enterprise. Take roads for example, a public-private partnership involves the government (at whatever level) contracting out road building and maintenance. Purely private involves the roads being built and maintained by private companies and being paid for through road tolls.
Public-private partnerships are (in my opinion) a good idea for a lot of things that do not strongly risk human lives, such as transport infrastructure, communications infrastructure and maintenance of public areas.They probably should be generally kept away from things like fire service, ambulance service, prisons and defence though.
