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Private sector involvement in delivering public services has been fairly commonplace in Hong Kong for many years. In many sectors, private sector delivery goes back even further than it does in countries such as the UK and Australia - for example, private provision of electricity, public buses and trams, tolled tunnels, and so on. However, whilst the Government continues to be committed to 'Big Market Small Government', with the result that outsourcing continues apace, a degree of inertia is now setting in as the market awaits the extension of the PFI model to other public services.

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List of Resources:
 
Serving The Community By Using the Private Sector: Policy and Practice (PDF)
Efficient Unit, Government of the Hong Kong Speical Administrative Region, 2007
This booklet updates and restates the Government's policies and practices on how best to make good use of the private sector in the quest to serve the community.
Hong Kong
 

Serving the Community by Using the Private Sector: A User Guide to Contract Management (PDF)
Efficiency Unit, Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, 2007
This User Guide is a first attempt in Hong Kong to provide handy, accurate, practical and relevant guidance to cival servant contract managers and frontline supervisors.
Hong Kong
 

Delivering Better Education (PDF)
Tooley, James, Dixon, Pauline and Stansfield, James, 2003
Adam Smith Institute
This report formed part of the Adam Smith Institute's 'Better Education Project'. It shows the practical benefits that education choice has brought in other countries, demonstrating how the same choice and competition that are already improving school standards in disadvantaged communities are applicable to the UK. Nations studied include the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Hong Kong, the United States and Canada.  
UK
 

Serving the Community by using the private Sector: A general guide to outsourcing (PDF)
Efficiency Unit, Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. 2nd Edition, 2003
A guide providing information for outsourcing decision makers in the public sector, analyzing the steps that should be considered at each step of the outsourcing process.
Hong Kong
 

Serving the Community by Using the Private Sector: An Introductory Guide to Public Private Partnerships (PDF)
Efficiency Unit, Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, 2003
A document providing guidance for public sector officials interested in venturing in PPP project as well as helpful for enhancing private sector understanding of Hong Kong's Government approach to the issue.
Hong Kong
 

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  Last Updated: 17 October 2008