Public-Private-Partnership-PPP – By Oscar E V Fernando     PPP is a long-term arrangement between government and the Private Sector Institutions or vice versa to start up a project; it involves private capital financing government projects up-front and then recovering from tax payers and/or from profits of the project-this and many other pacts available may be negotiated and agreed upon by stake holders. It would appear that such a collaboration is like trying to mix oil and water in that the public sector will not have the daring to do business that a private sector has-unless it is a communist regime where daring is replaced by Cohesive Force to push employees to contribute to profit! In such a mix public capital is best utilized for construction and acquisition of equipment and not so much for management; a board with the required expertise will have to consider each project case by case before ...

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