Portugal
Portugal has been using the public private partnership model of public service contracting for about 10 years, a similar length of time to the UK, and Portuguese PPP investment is now comparatively high. More recently, PPP contracting in Portugal has spread from the transport sector to other public service sectors.
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Public-Private Partnerships: Some lessons from Portuguese Experience Monteiro, Rui Sousa , 2005 Parpublica SA, EIB Papers, Volume 10, No. 2 Parpublica SA is a state firm which acts as a PPP knowledge centre and advisor to the Portuguese Finance Minister. The following report draws lessons from the Portuguese experience of PPPs, as perceived by the report's author, a senior economist in the PPP Unit at Parpublica. Portugal