2009 - World Bank - Private Participation in the Transport Sector in ECA

This report reviews recent experience in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region with contractual public private partnerships (PPPs) in the transport sector. The review and evaluation of successes and failures of past investment projects can provide valuable lessons to governments on the options they have for infrastructure spending and the pre-requisites for those options. Whilst the review covers the whole region, the primary focus is on the Central and Eastern European and South-Eastern European (CEE/SEE) countries as they were the first within the Europe and Central Asia region to follow the global trend of using PPPs 1 in the implementation of infrastructure projects. For the purposes of the study, the CEE countries are defined as the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovak Republic, and Slovenia, and the SEE/economies countries as Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia.