From Development Gateway: "OECD countries have approved new principles to help governments in working with private sector partners to finance and bring to fruition major infrastructure projects in areas of vital economic importance such as transport, water and power supply and telecommunications. The OECD Principles for Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure give governments a checklist of policy issues that they should consider in ensuring that citizens get the services they need at a fair cost and with acceptable returns to private sector partners..." Read more of this blog post...

The OECD principles should be a nice compliment to other resources in existence:

World Bank Privatization Tool Kits

UN Guidelines on Governance in Public Private Partnerships for Infrastructure Development

Vives et al.'s Framework for Selecting an Appropriate Financial Structure for a PPP Project

Guasch's Book, Granting and Renegotiating Infrastructure Concessions: Doing it Right

Posted by rjorr at April 4, 2007 2:18 PM