6th People's Republic of China-ADB Knowledge-Sharing Platform

Book excerpt: This report summarizes the proceedings of the Deepening Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) workshop held in Beijing on 25-26 November 2014. The workshop was sponsored by the Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China (PRC), and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and co-organized by the PPP Research Committee led by the Research Institute for Fiscal Science. More than 100 participants from 18 countries attended the workshop from central governments, local governments, the financial and consulting sectors, academia, and development partner institutions. The proceedings focused on identifying new developments in PPPs in the region and further abroad, ingredients for a successful enabling environment for PPPs, good institutional models for promoting and regulating the use of PPPs, and good practices for managing the fiscal risk of PPPs.