Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/109500 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
ADB Economics Working Paper Series No. 387
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila
Abstract: 
In many countries, public agencies or private firms are gradually moving away from being exclusive providers of goods and services that traditionally were assigned to the state or markets, respectively. Instead, state agencies, both at the national and the local level, and private organizations, both for-profit firms and nongovernment organizations (NGOs), increasingly coordinate, collaborate, or partner to finance, produce, or provide public services. This paper attempts to identify the factors that account for the successes or failures of such public–private service delivery arrangements, with a focus on the role of monetary andnonmonetary incentives used in selected case studies in developing Asia. It finds that such arrangements are a viable service delivery mechanism where there is a state or market failure. While governments now increasingly enter into such partnerships, they appear to do so more with for-profit firms than with NGOs. A key lesson is to mobilize potential private sector partners, match the partner's mission with the appropriate type or level of service provision, and then motivate them with the right incentives but also monitor them for performance accordingly.
Subjects: 
public–private partnerships
NGOs
incentives
public service delivery
Asia
JEL: 
H39
H49
L31
L33
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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