PROPOSED NATIONAL PPP POLICY AND FRAMEWORK
(NP4)
DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE
and
NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
by:
Alberto C. Agra
Forensic Solutions
2 May 2011
Build-and-Transfer (BT) - A contractual arrangement whereby the Project Proponent undertakes the financing and Construction of a given infrastructure or development facility, and after its completion, turns it over to the Agency or LGU concerned, which shall pay the Project Proponent, on an agreed schedule, its total investment expended on the project, plus a Reasonable Rate of Return thereon. This arrangement may be employed in the construction of any Infrastructure or Development Project, including critical facilities which, for security or strategic reasons, must be operated directly by the Government.
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ABOVE ALL, RESTRAINT, RELIANCE AND RESPECT FOR THE COURTS
(All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except as guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.
- Andrew Jackson
On 7 December 2010, the Supreme Court declared the Truth Commission unconstitutional. The public reaction to the decision was mixed. Some quarters agreed with the Supreme Court’s observations, and cited the President’s seeming lack of competent legal advisers for the infirmity in Executive Order No. 1, which created the commission. Others pointed out that instead of concentrating his efforts on curing the infirmities in the creation of the Truth Commission, the President should just use existing institutions – the Office of the Ombudsman, and the Department of Justice, among others – in his campaign against graft and corruption.
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The Country Needs a Stable PPP Policy
(Public-Private Partnerships Series: Paper No. 3)
Alberto C. Agra and L.F. Cynthia D. Perez-Alabanza
Forensic Solutions
The need for well-developed infrastructure is essential to continued economic viability and sustainable progress in trade and industry. Past administrations have consistently focused on infrastructure building as most vital to the foundations of a strong economy.
On 17 to 19 November 2010, the Aquino government launched “Infrastructure Philippines 2010,” a PPP (Public-Private Partnership) Summit, at the Manila Marriott Hotel. In what the President called a "daylight summit," infrastructure and transportation projects were presented for possible private-public partnerships to would-be private sector investors.
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The JV Guidelines Remains to be a Sound Legal Framework for PPP
(Public-Private Partnerships Series: Paper No. 1)
Alberto C. Agra and Lally C. Ortilla-Mallari
Forensic Solutions
Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) refers to cooperative venture between the public and private sectors, built on their respective expertise, that best meets clearly defined public needs through the appropriate allocation of resources, risks and rewards. PPP generally denotes a long-term, contractual partnerships between the public agencies and private sector, specifically targeted towards financing, designing, implementing, and operating infrastructure facilities and services that were traditionally provided by the government.....
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CSR in Mining
(Mining Series: Paper No. 1)
Alberto C. Agra and Faye Josephine R. Miguel-Rañola
Forensic Solutions
The international community was riveted to television screens on October 13, 2010 as the first of the 33 Chilean miners stepped out of the capsule that rescued him after being trapped for more than two months 2000 feet below the surface of the San Jose mine. The global audience celebrated the miners who triumphantly emerged from their 70-day ordeal,
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The road to electric power industry reform: Will it lead anywhere?
(Energy Series: Paper No. 2)
By: Alberto C. Agra and Mari Jennifer M. Bruce
Forensic Solutions
The last three decades have seen profound transformations in the Philippine electric power industry (EPI).
The end of the Marcos Regime in 1986 saw two major developments in the EPI: government-owned National Power Corporation’s (NPC) shift from being the sole power generator in the country, and the return of MERALCO, a private company that was nationalized during Martial Law, to it previous owners.
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