Insight into PFIs, Triple Ps and general procurement

Provision of public infrastructure is naturally the responsibility of government and it is ordinarily funded through taxes and levies imposed on citizens. Given the ever-increasing demands from the general citizenry, the public purse will always fall short unless there are lazy public administrators, who fail to utilise their allocations or that budgets are overstated. In view of the general quality of money, it will always be not enough and the government has to choose from basically three common means of providing such infrastructure.

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