The Increasing Role Of The “Kazakhstan Private-Public Partnership Center" JSC in Promoting PPP Projects

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2017 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, National University of Singapore (Lee Kuan Yew School of public policy), language: English, abstract: This research paper aims at analyzing the role of “Kazakhstan Private-Public Partnership Center” established in 2008, through the prism of the existing, as well as the newly emerging, legal framework on PPPs; the roles of the Kazakh government and key stakeholders primarily the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, and the Ministry of Finance. The paper also explores the risks associated with implementing PPP projects in the context of Kazakhstan, generally divided into public sector, private sector, and common risk groups. A selected number of project cases are presented to better illustrate the evolution of PPP projects before and after the PPP Center was established. The ultimate research question the paper attempts to answer is what impact the introduction of the PPP Center has made on implementing PPP projects in Kazakhstan.