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Public-Private Partnerships

The Trojan Horse of Neoliberal Development?

Faranak Miraftab

Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

This article concerns the equity dimension of partnerships between disadvantaged communities and local governments and private sector firms to provide basic services and amenities. It examines the necessary conditions for fulfilling the expectation that such partnerships can serve the interests of the poor and the critical role of state in intervention to level the playing field for such a partnership. In the context of decentralizing third world governments, the article highlights conceptual inconsistencies underlying public-private partnerships that lead them to deliver results opposite to those they claim. The article points to the ambivalent and even deceptive core of such partnerships that enables their effective operation as a form of privatization, advancing the interests of the private sector and the market under the banner of sharing power with the poor and the state.

Key Words: public-private partnerships • decentralization • privatization • state-society relations

Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 24, No. 1, 89-101 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0739456X04267173
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