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Public private partnerships undermine gender equality and women's rights

Maria Romero

08 Mar 2019 12:54:26

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are being actively promoted by donor governments and international financial institutions to finance social services and infrastructure projects around the world.. PPPs are agreements where private sector companies replace the state as providers of traditional public services and infrastructure, such as health and education, transport, energy, and water and sanitation. With International Women’s Day and the next session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) fast approaching, now is the time to unpack how PPPs impact gender equality and women’s rights. Indeed, the risks and consequences associated with PPPs can undermine the achievement of governments’ commitments under Agenda 2030 to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including ...

Public-Private Partnerships: Defusing the ticking time bomb.

+eurodad

05 Oct 2017

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Why a free press is vital for exposing financial injustice.

Martin Atkin

03 May 2017 09:13:38

As Antoine Deltour and Raphaël Halet - better known as the Luxleaks whistleblowers - prepare for the next legal battle to clear their names, it’s worth remembering that it was only thanks to the much-vilified “mainstream media” that the tax avoidance scandal was exposed. Leaked documents do not make a story by themselves - it also takes independent, determined journalism. The two former PwC employees are appealing against revised sentences handed down by a Luxembourg court for their part in exposing how multinational corporations used secret tax deals with the Grand Duchy to dodge taxes around the world. Although the court reduced their original punishments, the pair are fighting to clear their names altogether. But the whistleblowers deserve praise – not punishment. They were prosecuted ...

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PPPs lead to dangerous debts for developing countries — it’s time for the World Bank to act

Maria Romero, Mathieu Vervynckt

01 Mar 2017 16:26:56

This blog was originally published on Devex. For many years, public-private partnerships have been promoted by governments and financial institutions as a way to pay for development projects such as roads, schools and hospitals. The World Bank is at the forefront of this push and advises governments on how to structure their PPPs. But it also ignores civil society campaigners’ concerns about the dangerous hidden debts that PPP projects can lead to. The European Network on Debt and Development, and more than 75 nongovernmental organizations and trade unions from all over the world, will not participate in the World Bank’s public consultations on PPPs until this dangerous problem is tackled. What are PPPs? PPPs are agreements in which the private sector essentially replaces governments ...

The UK’s PPPs Disaster: Lessons on private finance for the rest of the world

+Jubilee Debt Campaign

22 Feb 2017

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World Bank must push for greater transparency in PPP projects, urge CSOs

Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) are not transparent enough, and face criticism from civil society organisations (CSOs) and others for being too expensive, and a risky use of taxpayers’ money. On Monday (29 February) more than 50 CSOs have written ...

Maria Romero | 01 Mar 2016

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Where is the public in PPPs? Analysing the World Bank’s support for public-private partnerships

As the World bank and IMF hold their annual meetings this week, María José Romero, Eurodad's Policy and Advocacy Manager on Private finance, looks at the World Bank's support for Public Private Partnerships. This article was first published in the Bretton ...

Maria Romero | 09 Oct 2014