TURKISH PPPI EXPERIENCE CASTS LONG AND DARK SHADOWS ON PPPI MODEL
Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge at the northern tip of Bosphorus. Copyright: Ahmet Söylemezoğlu A large volume of infrastructure has been built based on the Public-Private-Partnership (PPPI) model in many countries. These projects offer important lessons and insights about this model. Among the many countries which have used the PPPI instrument, Turkey has a distinct place as it relied on the PPPI model heavily, perhaps more than any other emerging market and/or middle income country. Turkish experience is noteworthy not only in terms of its volume but also in terms of its breadth as Turkish PPPI projects spreads virtually over all sectors. This blog after some remarks about the PPPI projects and some of the pitfalls associated with them provides a comparative picture of the scale of PPPI projects in Turkey with those of in China, India Brazil, Indonesia, Philippines, Mexico, Thailand and Malaysia. It concludes with some of the lessons emerging from the Turkish experience. Factors...