dc.contributor.author | Afriyie, George Owusu | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-09-30T10:52:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-09-30T10:52:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/135504 | |
dc.description | Masteroppgave i økonomi og administrasjon - Universitetet i Agder 2010 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | There has been increasing demand for infrastructure development and service delivery both in
developed and developing countries. The traditional way of construction of projects continue
to be used in Ghana which results in cost and budget overruns, delays in delivering projects,
abandoned projects for lack of finance, lack of quality and increase in the level of corruption
among heads and leaders of institutions who see to the implementation of government
projects. The study aims to find other possible and relevant alternative in establishing projects
and hence look at the Public Private Partnerships (PPP) and the traditional way of
construction of projects.
The methodology that I used in the research study was more of qualitative approach
specifically a case study design in addition to other methods in gathering data which included
interviews and documents to obtain enough findings about reasons leading to government
projects constructed not within budgets, on time and are of good quality. The theoretical
framework of contract model and contracting strategies which dealt with projects delivered on
owner`s objectives and goals, guided the data analysis.
The study found that the government alone could not deliver effective and valuable
deliverables. The traditional construction of projects did not produce deliverables in a timely
and cost effective manner. There should be another alternative of construction of project
which could reduce the challenges to the barest minimum
Hence the research argues for a change in the standard way of construction of projects. With
the introduction of Public Private Partnerships in Ghana a developing nation, the private
contractor would design, build, finance, operate and transfer the project deliverables to the
government. The partner could also supply some public services more effectively, cheaper
and more reliably than the public sector. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Universitetet i Agder ; University of Agder | en_US |
dc.subject.classification | BE 501 | |
dc.title | Looking at the public private partnerships and the traditional way of construction of projects | en_US |
dc.type | Master thesis | en_US |
dc.subject.nsi | VDP::Social science: 200::Economics: 210::Economics: 212 | en_US |
dc.source.pagenumber | 76 s. | en_US |