Although public-private partnership (PPP) is regarded as one of the key effective tools in development many countries, various challenges surrounding PPPs are not well understood. This paper explores nine PPP implementation: (1) different organizational cultures and goals between partners, (2) poor institutional environment support, (3) weak political legal frameworks, (4) unreliable mechanisms...

KENT BUSE AND ANDREW HARMER ABSTRACT Ken Buse and Andrew Harmer review the political dimensions of global public–private health partnerships through the ‘three faces of power’ lens. They attempt to answer the questions: who has power; how is power exercised; and on what basis? Evidence, although scant, suggests that a northern elite wields power through its domination of governing bodies and al...

When 21 biopharmaceutical companies recently launched the Access Accelerated Initiative (AAI) on prevention and care for non-communicable diseases (NCD) [1] in Davos, Switzerland, it was described as a ‘global, multi-stakeholder collaboration’. The need for partnership is included in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). SDG 17 aims to “Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable devel...