In this paper, we analyze the private participation in prison services in three countries: Brazil, France, and the United States. We highlight striking differences in efficiency between these countries and argue that the ...

This study analyzes the competitive aspects of public-private partnerships (PPPs) under Unsolicited Proposals (USPs). USPs differ from regular PPP arrangements from the moment that projects are proposed from scratch by ...

We seek in this paper to present the Pro-Creche Program and its development in a medium-sized municipality in the state of Sao Paulo. The Pro-Creche Program constitutes a partnership between local governments and private ...

The Centre for the Facilitation of Procedures and Practices in Administration, Commerce and Transport (CEFACT) constitutes a partnership between the public and private sectors for their mutual benefit. For the private ...

This article presents results of the master's research entitled Partnerships between the public and the private in the provision of early childhood education in medium-sized municipalities of Sao Paulo, whose main objective ...

The present study aims to analyze the policies of the insertion of private capital into mass transit systems, As it is argued in the introduction, the different relative weights of political factors and of economic reasons ...