PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTERNSHIPS IN TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE

This Master’s Thesis examines the relationship between Public-Private Partnership (PPP) models of transport corridor actors in Sub-Saharan Africa and their cost- and time performance. Through a cross-sectional regression analysis of 20 corridors throughout the continent, it is determined that, in contradiction of World Bank policy notes - advising infrastructure privatisation as the way to go for development - there currently exists no relationship between corridor PPPs and their performance in Sub-Saharan Africa. A lack of adequate regulatory regimes and organisational inadequacy in government institutions is identified as one of the possible reasons for the absence of this relationship, thus putting forward the need for improvement on the latter field before being able to reap any benefits from privatisation. Finally, some evidence is found for the relevance of the direction of development (outside-in v/s inside-out) in relation to corridor performance.