Investing opportunities through public-private partnerships in Algerian economy

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This study attempts to explore if public-private partnerships are the best solution for the Algerian public services delivery, amid the plummeting in global energy prices, which means a budget crisis for a country’s oil-dependent economy.

This research aims to analyse public private partnership projects development in Algeria, by presenting a general framework of public-private partnerships models in different fields, basing on the case study of international successful practices, in order to argue that public private partnerships can play a positive role in developing infrastructure investment and public services.

Several findings revealed from the study, despite, the legal restrictions and the non-attendance of a public-private partnership (PPP) regulation, Algeria has an ambitious experience in publicprivate partnerships projects realized in the few last years, especially in water and desalination field, transport and airports management which steel a remain experience that needed to be spread on other public services