The Role of Public-Private Partnership in Infrastructure Investment

The Main Purposes of Public-Private Partnership in Infrastructure Investment

Investment in infrastructure plays a key role in the economy’s potential and ensuring sustainable growth, in addition to improving the living standards of the population. Accordingly, what are the main purposes of public-private partnership allowing to achieve such end result? When such partnership between public and private sectors can lead to collaborative inertia. Support your discussion with reflection on course material, the case, and a tangible example from your national context where public private partnership did not achieve or lead to the desired outcomes. 

Hint: in your essay, you need to reflect on the following:
-    Discuss the six bases for collaborative advantage. 
-    Refer to the case and identify which are the main bases that were considered in various PPPs. 
-    Discuss based on the case when PPPs can lead to collaborative inertia and support your answer in this regard with example from a tangible example from your national context. 

Attention
-     Pay attention not to copy information as is whether from the course material or the case. You are ought to provide a discussion and demonstrate understanding of various concepts. 

In collaboration, different types of power can be referred to better run the partnership. In the case, when there are shortcomings and to ensure an acceptable significant risk, the private sector seems to prefer referring to one tpe of power rather than the others. Identify and discuss this type of power. Critically discuss why the private sector would refer to this type of power rather than the others. Support your discussion with external references. 

Hint: in your essay, you need to reflect on the following:
-    Discuss the three types of power: power over, power to and power for. 
-    Refer to the case and identify why the private sector is referring to this type of power. 

Attention
-     Pay attention not to copy information as is whether from the course material or the case. You are ought to provide a discussion and demonstrate understanding of various concepts. 

General hints

1)    Critical discussion and link between theoretical frameworks and the case should be clearly highlighted. You should take a critical approach, try to be creative in your response, and avoid descriptive answers.
2)    You are expected to refer to external references to provide more evidence to your discussion. External resources can be related to the case/article or they can be not directly related to it yet helping to add to your analysis and discussion. 
3)    Your answer has to be in an essay format divided into introduction, body and conclusion for each question. 

The Potential for Collaborative Inertia in Public-Private Partnerships

1.    Cut-off date: Week 11 (specific date to be specified later by deanship). If you feel that you are unable to meet the cut-off date of the TMA because of unusual circumstances, please contact your tutor as soon as possible to discuss a possible extension to the cut-off date. The exact cut-off date will be assigned in due course. TMA weight: 20% of total course grade.

3.    Format: Write your answers in essay format. Failing to do so could result in grade deduction from presentation marks up to 5 marks. You may, however, use bullet points, diagrams, tables, or any graphs to support your arguments. 
4.    Plagiarism: Write your answers using your own words. Plagiarism will be penalized depending on its severity and according to AOU plagiarism policy (Enclosed after these instructions you will find the Arab Open University Rules of Cheating and Plagiarism).
5.    Word count: Answers are expected to be within +/- 10% of the word limit. Answers that fall below or above this range can lose up to 5 marks. 

6.    Referencing:  Use Harvard referencing style for in-text citation and make a table of references at the end. Failing to do so could result grade deduction of referencing marks up to 5 marks.  
7.    Research: Use a minimum of two additional sources of information. It is strongly recommended that you use scholarly articles found in the E-library at LMS. You can lose up to 5 marks if you do not use at least two external sources. In addition, although text books assigned in the course may be used freely as references, you are required to use a minimum of 2 external sources. It is recommended that you use scholarly studies found in the E-library link at the LMS. Failing to do so could result in grade deduction of referencing marks up to 5 marks. If you do not find required additional information at the e-library, you can always refer to Google scholar. 

The Arab Open University Definitions of cheating and plagiarism
According to the Arab Open University By-laws, “The following acts represent studies of cheating and plagiarism: 
•    Verbatim copying of printed material and submitting them as part of TMAs without proper academic acknowledgement and documentation.
•    Verbatim copying of material from the Internet, including tables and graphics.
•    Copying other students’ notes or reports.
•    Using paid or unpaid material prepared for the student by individuals or firms.
•    Utilization of, or proceeding to utilize, contraband materials or devices in examinations.”

Examples of Plagiarism
Copying from a single or multiple sources, this is where the student uses one or more of the following as the basis for the whole, or a good part, of the assignment: 
1.    Published or unpublished books, studies or reports
2.    The Internet
3.    The media (e.g.TV programmes, radio programmes or newspaper studies) 
4.    An essay from an essay bank
5.    A piece of work previously submitted by another student
6.    Copying from a text which is about to be submitted for the same assignment.