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What Is PPP Financing? PPP financing is the capital structure used to deliver a public-private partnership, commonly called a PPP or P3. It combines public purpose with private capital, technical execution, long-term asset management, and contract-based performance obligations. A PPP is not free infrastructure. It is not simply private money replacing public money. It is a long-term contractual model where a public authority uses private-sector capacity to design, build, fina

How Governments Can Build Efficient, Resilient, Feasible and Bankable Infrastructure Programs By Russell Duke, National Standard Finance LLC National infrastructure master plans are no longer administrative planning documents. They are sovereign economic strategy documents. A well-designed national infrastructure plan determines how a country grows, how it competes, how it moves people and goods, how it powers its economy, how it manages water, how it digitizes its public ser

A Guide for Governments, SOEs, and Project Sponsors By Russell Duke, National Standard Finance LLC Infrastructure is one of the most important responsibilities of government, but it is also one of the most difficult to finance well. Roads, ports, airports, power plants, water systems, hospitals, rail networks, data centers, industrial zones, and logistics corridors all require long-term capital, disciplined planning, credible execution, and a financing structure that can surv