Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure

Offers a comprehensive from-principles-to-practice reference book for private participation in infrastructure with a special focus on India

Discusses contemporary issues in Indian infrastructure including land acquisition, environmental clearance

Uses relevant case studies to analyze PPP failures to pinpoint problems so as to avoid them in future

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Dr. Kumar V. Pratap is presently the Joint Secretary (Infrastructure Policy and Finance) at the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India. Earlier, he has worked with the Prime Minister's Office (New Delhi), the World Bank (Washington DC), Embassy of India (Washington DC), Ministry of Finance (New Delhi), and the Planning Commission (New Delhi). He has lectured at various institutions both in India and abroad and was also a visiting faculty at the Indian School of Business, India. He has published with Oxford University Press, the World Bank, Economic and Political Weekly, and the popular press. He is a recipient of a letter of appreciation from the Indian Prime Minister, and fellowships from the University of Melbourne's Emerging Leaders program, University of Maryland's John J Sexton and doctoral program. He has a MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (1987) and a PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA (2011).
Dr. Rajesh Chakrabarti is Professor and Executive Vice Dean at the Jindal Global Business School, Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India, and co-founder of Sunay Policy Advisory based in Gurugram, India. He has taught finance for over a decade and a halfat the University of Alberta, Canada, Georgia Tech, USA, and the Indian School of Business (ISB). As the founding Executive Director of the Bharti Institute of Public Policy at ISB's Mohali campus, he helped design and launch one of India's leading public policy programs. He has also been Executive Vice President, Research and Policy at the Wadhwani Foundation. Rajesh has held visiting positions at various institutions including Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Delhi, India Development Foundation (IDF) Gurgaon, ICN Business School, Nancy, France, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He has authored or edited eight books, in addition to authoring several book chapters and articles on finance, economics, and management in leading international scholarly journals. He has been a columnist with the Financial Express and is frequently quoted in the media. His current research interests are in the areas of management and public policy. Rajesh is an alumnus of Presidency College, Kolkata, and IIM Ahmedabad, and earned his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

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Foreword, by: Carol Graham, Charles Robinson Chair, The Brookings Institution, Washington DC; and Clive Harris, Practice Manager, Public-Private Partnerships, World Bank Institute, The World Bank, Washington DC.- Chapter 1: Infrastructure Challenges.- Chapter 2: Financing Infrastructure.- Chapter 3: Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Concepts.- Chapter 4: PPP Models and Issues.- Chapter 5: PPPs in different sector.- Chapter 6: Designing and Managing PPP Transactions.- Chapter 7: Infrastructure Regulation.- Chapter 8: PPPs in India.- Chapter 9: Renegotiations and Cancellation of Infrastructure Projects.- Chapter 10: Value for Money in PPPs.