Publication

This paper examines some of the key assumptions underlying the current debate on public-private partnerships impact assessment. The author argues that different stakeholders may not want to know about the effects of PPPs in developing countries; there is no objective truth about these effects that can be discovered through the use of impact assessment methodologies; and insights generated through impact assessments may be used as a learning resource, but cannot necessarily be transferred from one context to another since what works in one particular setting may not work in another.