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Public-Private Partnership Analysis

Budgetary Smoothing

Definition

The primary (often unstated) function PPPs serve: allowing governments to deliver visible infrastructure while deferring immediate fiscal consequences. PPPs operate as instruments of political timing rather than long-horizon capital solutions.

Example

A government announces a major PPP infrastructure program before an election—the spending is off-balance-sheet, debt metrics aren't affected, and fiscal consequences are pushed to future administrations.

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PPP Section 7

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Related Terms from Public-Private Partnership Analysis

Capital Misalignment

Four Fragility Cycles (PPP Context)

Embedded Extraction

Temporal Misalignment (PPP)

Risk Displacement (Not Resolution)

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