scholarly journals Revitalization of urban areas through business and tourism improvement districts (BIDs/TIDs) in Albania

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (02) ◽  
pp. 128-133
Author(s):  
Ermira Repaj ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Infrastructure Improvement

The spreading of business improvement districts (BIDs) and similar forms of a public-private partnership, as a new mechanism of urban revitalization and economic development, have emerged in Canada five decades ago and quickly adopted to many cities in countries such as the USA, Germany, UK, South Africa and lately Denmark and Sweden. This form of a public-private partnership with local authorities is created when a significant number of businesses or business property owners agree through a democratic process ballot to manage a delimited area and offer additional public services such as security, maintenance, infrastructure improvement, and marketing, to improve decaying commercial and residential areas. Since 2011, the model has been applied in 8 districts in Albania, contributing to improved business life, infrastructure improvement, and enhanced general public services. The period is long enough to offer insights regarding their evolution and transformative effect in the areas where it has been applied. This paper aims to explore the adaptation of the business improvement district (BID) model in urban areas in Albania and, at the same time, point out its characteristics, activities, and contribution to the area development. The methodology used includes a qualitative research design, including primary and secondary data sources. Primary data sources include interviews with BID association members, administrators, and consultants in Albania, businesses, local government officials, and lawyers. Secondary sources include different research papers on BID functionality and BID legislation, conference proceedings, project reports, entrepreneurship magazines. By identifying the effects of the model in area transformation, this study results have important implications for Albania's public and development policies and extracts practical lessons from its introduction in this local context. The findings presented demonstrate BID's transformative role for area renewal, economic and social development of the areas where it has been applied.

scholarly journals Placemaking and Revitalization through Business and Tourism Improvement Districts in Albania

2021 ◽  
Vol 09 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ermira Repaj ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
Business Improvement District ◽  
Business Property

As a form of a public-private partnership with local authorities, the business improvement district (BID) is created when most businesses or business property owners agree through balloting to manage a delimited commercial area with prior authorization by the local authority. The district is managed through a non-profit organization that provides additional public services such as security, maintenance, infrastructure improvement, and marketing, to improve decaying commercial and residential areas. BIDs have been praised as engines for urban development, filling the need gap between the public and private sector by providing entrepreneurial local public management and augmented public services for socioeconomic revitalization. The business improvement districts (BIDs) and similar forms of a public-private partnership, as a new mechanism for urban renewal and economic development, have emerged in North America five decades ago and quickly adopted in many cities worldwide. Since 2011, the model has been applied in 8 districts in Albania, contributing to improved business life, infrastructure improvements, and enhanced general public services. This time is considered long enough to offer insights regarding their evolution and transformative effects. This study aims at exploring the adaptation of the business improvement district (BID) model in urban areas in Albania and, at the same time, point out its characteristics, operational and functional activities, accountability, and contribution to business development and area revitalization. The methodology used in this study adopts a qualitative method, including a case study approach to data gathering Primary data sources include semi-structured interviews with BID association members, administrators, and consultants in Albania, businesses, local government officials, and lawyers. This study will contribute to a more robust contextual understanding of the establishment and effectiveness of BIDs in developing economies The findings presented demonstrate BID’s transformative role for area regeneration, economic and social development. Furthermore, this study provides additional insights regarding the effects of development organizations’ involvement in this public-private partnership model for area regeneration. The results have important implications for Albania’s public and development policies and provide practical lessons for practitioners in these fields. Furthermore, it contributes to the international literature on BIDs, including evidence of this model applied in a developing economy.

Méthodologie d’analyse conceptuelle appliquée: Comment définir le concept de ‘partenariat public–privé’ dans une perspective juridique et transdisciplinaire?

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 280-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie McCann ◽  
Martin Thiboutot
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Analysis Framework ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
Legal Concepts

The increasing use of public–private partnerships (PPP) as a means of delivering public services or constructing public infrastructures draws growing interest in the legal community. The ambiguity and lack of consensus surrounding the content of PPP as a concept, leads the researcher to refer to various disciplinary sources. Widely encouraged in law, transdisciplinarity often suffers methodological insufficiencies when comes the time to define transdisciplinary concepts. The authors revisit the interpretation methods developed by the courts, and propose a complementary conceptual analysis framework. The developed framework is then applied to the emerging concept of public–private partnership, as it is used and defined in various disciplines. The paper demonstrates the feasibility and desirability to provide a transdisciplinary perspective to legal concepts.

scholarly journals Public private partnership as a last resort for traditional public procurement

2006 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktorija Bojovic
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
The Public ◽  
Management Culture ◽  
Complex Projects

This paper discusses recent changes in the way public services are delivered A marked increase in the cooperation between the public and private sector in the realization of complex projects, mostly concerning development of infrastructure, is the main characteristic of present-day developing economies. The creation of new, innovative agreements is driven by the limitation of public funds and an ever-growing demand for an increase in the quality of public services. Looking upon the western economies experience alternatives to the traditional public sector procurement are identified in the public/private partnership. The public/private partnership can be seen as one component in the rearrangement of the public sector with a management culture that focuses on the citizen or customer. Also included in this are accountability for results, investigation of a wide variety of alternative service delivery mechanisms, and competition between public and private bodies for contracts to deliver services consistent with cost recovery and the achievement of value for money. The partnership can be realized through an array of models and in this paper priority is given to the DBFO (design-build-finance-operate) model, due to its importance in implementation. The DBFO model is considered to be a synonym for the public/private partnership, as it is the most suitable for complex projects and gains the most benefits.

scholarly journals Impact of the COVID-19 in Tourism Industry in Nepal and Policy Recommendation

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-91
Author(s):  
Bishnu Prasad Khanal
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Foreign Currency ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
Corona Virus

For the first time in history, almost all the domestic and international tourism destinations have restrictions for travel worldwide because of corona virus pandemic. Corona virus disease calls the COVID-19 pandemic is an ongoing problem in more than 210 countries in the world. The purpose of this study is to find the tourism impact of COVID-19 in Nepal and purpose recommendations for the preparation of evidence based policy and strategies for further development of the tourism industry in Nepal. Secondary data used in this study were obtained from the ministry of tourism in Nepal and other various web sources and primary data were collected from the online survey and collected 52 samples. They are involved in the hospitality, education & consulting, travel & tours, adventure & expedition, trekking agencies, and government officials from national tourism originations. The study highlights that the tourism contribution in Nepal’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product) as a significant sector that has a linkage with other sectors. Also, the Nepalese tourism industry is dependent on international factors and the Nepal tourism industry highly relies on foreign tourists and cancellation of the mountain climbing permits for the year 2020, affects the income of foreign currency as building the capacity of stakeholders and public-private partnership initiatives to promote and work together to develop and manage in future tourism fields. well as the local economy, the loss of thousands of jobs in the tourism sector and others sectors. Overall analyses suggest that building the capacity of stakeholders and public-private partnership initiatives to promote and work together to develop and manage in future tourism fields.

scholarly journals Co-housing as the way to achieve a good density in the cities – Warsaw case study

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 31-39
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Kosk
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
Insufficient Attention ◽  
Flexibility Design ◽  
Architectural Planning ◽  
The Individual

Constant population growth in urban areas is one of the main global problems, and its importance grows with the depletion of non-renewable resources. The efficient, effective and responsible use of land is supposed to be an aim, the achievement of which will profit cities. The crucial question is, how cities can achieve this aim. The author of this article intends to discuss the individual problems which prevent achieving an appropriate density in Warsaw, and find ways of solving or reducing these problems. A proposed main hypothesis is, that the introduction of an alternative type of housing, namely co-housing can become a way to obtain a good density in the cities. Confirmation of this hypothesis is derived on the basis of the analysis of residential estates created following the rules of co-housing developed in Germany, in relation to similar problems. The purpose of the article was also to remind that Warsaw has a rich tradition in creating social efforts developments. The main social ideas was presented on the basic of the project of Polish housing estate designed in the Rakowiec district in Warsaw by H. and Sz. Syrkus, which was established in 1934-1938 The research part of the article was conducted through a comparison of spatial elements of Warsaw, employing the same criteria, which were adopted based on the several, selected characteristics of good density published in the ULI report, such as: mixed use of land, planned, cohesive, liveable, spacious, flexibility, design, green. The conducted comparison demonstrates, that Warsaw has a lot of different problems with obtaining a good density. These are: mono-functional areas in the suburbs, social disparity, the housing market dominated by developers, lack of enough, well-arranged public spaces combined with residential areas, lack of identity neighborhoods, insufficient attention to the local context in the process of designing new buildings, insufficient attention to the environment in terms of creation of buildings, too little green spaces and gardens in the inner city. The presented analyses show that the introducing concept of co-housing can help Warsaw with obtaining a good density. In order to obtain a high quality of the urban space, decisions regarding it should therefore be made simultaneously on three scales: spatial planning, urban planning and architectural planning. Architecture must cooperate with the existing urban fabric. All users of urban life should participate in its creation: development companies, municipal authorities that are responsible for spatial order, architects and residents.

scholarly journals DIRECTIONS OF ADVISORY SUPPORT FOR USING THE MECHANISM OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IN ENHANCING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LOGISTICS

2019 ◽  
pp. 28-37
Author(s):  
Anatoliy Ivanko ◽  
Yuriy Bakun ◽  
Mykhaylo Ksenofontov
Keyword(s):  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
The Public ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Duration Of Storage ◽  
State And Local ◽  
State Financing ◽  
Business Entities

Introduction. Search of ways of solving of ecological problems is significance on the current stage of economic reforming of Ukraine. Development research for minimization of ecological externalities for society is actual too. Search of different mechanisms and order of the organizational and financial provision of solving of public problems is substantial for reforming considering the limited the state and local budgets also. Methods: The dialectical method of cognition and a systematic method for studying the issues of advisory support for using the mechanism of public-private partnership in the system of ecological logistics, as well as: analysis, synthesis, analogy, expert method, generalization method were used. The comparative analysis method was used to analyze the role of the public-private partnership mechanism in solving of public problems, the expert method was used to reveal the features of advisory support for the use of the public-private partnership mechanism, the analysis, synthesis and analogy methods were used to determination of approaches for solving environmental problems at the economic level, generalization method to form the conclusions of the study. Results. Expediency of strengthening of competitive position of business entities on the basis of optimization of transport expenditures, volumes and duration of storage of commodity and material resources and products have been proved. This is connected with theoretical direction of eco-logistics. Description of aim marks of development of ecological logistics have been represented. Legislative characteristic: the concept of “public and private partnership” and its advantages, objects and signs of PPP, forms and PPP contract areas have been represented. Four-stages algorithm of advisory support of use of public-private partnership contracts have been substantiated in eco-logistics within the next four stages: 1. search of competitions of state financing of PPP projects and participation in them; 2. search the best partners for realization of PPP projects; 3. substantiation of directions of optimization of market expenses; 4. adjustment of system of strategic and operational management. Discussion for further research are to divide competency between state and privates partners of public-private partnerships and to balance between economical and ecological efficiency in the eco-logistics projects. Keywords: eco-logistics, public-private partnership, advisory support, management, cost-effectiveness, eco-efficiency.

scholarly journals Do Public-Private Partnership Investment in Energy and Technological Transfers Improve Environmental Quality To Achieve Sustainable Environment Agenda: Evidence From Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hummera SALEEM ◽  
Muhammad Bilal Khan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Ekc Hypothesis ◽  
Energy Policies ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
Study Results

Abstract This paper tries to find the relationship among economic growth (GDP), import (IMP), export (EXP), public-private partnership investment (PPPG), and technological changes (TEC) on carbon-based CO2 emissions under the Environment Kuznets curve (EKC) premises during the period of 1980-2019 for Pakistan. This study employed various unit root tests that have been designed, such as Augmented Dickey and Fuller (ADF), ARDL co-integration tests, FMOLS, and DOLS estimation techniques. The results indicate that all the variables are co-integrated and have a short-run association among them. The results of DOLS and FOMLS indicate that CO2emissions significantly increase due to increases in economic growth. This study also verified the EKC hypothesis and the findings of the study support the EKC hypothesis for Pakistan. CO2 emissions are significantly decreased by increases in the share of technological innovation, and consumption-based carbon emissions are increased by the share of the trade and public-private investment in energy. The study results suggested that a reduction in the use of non-renewable energy through public-private investment and the use of renewable energy sources is related to energy efficiency policies. The consumption of non-renewable energy sources is high in Pakistan, as compared to renewable energy sources. Appropriate policy tools have been recommended to researchers and policymakers to minimize the harmful effect of global climate change and warming. Thus, environment quality can be enhanced through effective energy policies, sensible saving energy policies, optimized structural changes in the energy sector through effective government policies.

Public Private Partnership in Infrastructure - Roads Sector in India

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. P. K. Sinha ◽  
Ms. Sanchari Sinha
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Political Accountability ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
Private Finance ◽  
The Government ◽  
Private Sector Involvement

Public Private Partnership (PPP) has emerged as a key prospective for involving the private sector in the provision of infrastructure and other public services. There is a room for debate as to whether private sector involvement necessarily implies private finance. The term PPP could cover situations where private investment is brought, to improve the efficiency of public expenditure and private finance. PPP are not vehicles for privatizing public services since the Government retains full political accountability for the services. They simply are the means by which the Government can use what private sector offers to improve its own performance. It is done by establishing own arrangements often through legally binding contracts that will bring benefit to both sectors. The private sector needs to earn return on its ability to invest and perform. The Government should therefore look very carefully at PPPs, because if economic advancement can be made via infrastructure improvements, it may meet any increased cost of involving the private sector. This article brings an overview of the PPP terminology in infrastructure with emphasis on the roads sector. It highlights on the framework and sectoral overview of road sector in the light of PPP process and phases.

scholarly journals Public-private partnership as a mechanism for the development of heat supply

2020 ◽  
Vol 221 ◽  
pp. 03001
Author(s):  
Aleksey Bataev ◽  
Dmitry Samorukov ◽  
Antonina Glushkova ◽  
Vitaly Potyarkin
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Heat Supply ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Thermal Power Plants ◽  
Russian Government ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
State Programs

The relevance of the research topic is caused by the need to form new innovative approaches in the field of heat supply, aimed at modernizing thermal power plants that provide heat to urban areas. In recent years, the Russian government has adopted several state programs related to environmental protection, directed towards reducing the emission of harmful substances into the atmosphere. Thermal power plants are objects whose emissions significantly pollute the environment. Considering the wear of equipment, according to various estimates, reaches 60-80% in different regions, such equipment is extremely necessary to be modernized. Using the mechanism of public-private partnership in the field of heat supply is examined in this study. An algorithm for constructing a model in the field of creating mini thermal power plants is considered. They provide heat supply to individual urban areas, as well as to ensure a significant reduction in the level of environmental pollution. The main financial indicators are estimated based on the above algorithm. This project’s performance is assessed on the basis of financing both from the state and private companies. Conclusions about using the proposed model for the development of heat supply are drawn.

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