{"id":2786,"date":"2018-07-29T19:01:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T23:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2018-07-29T19:01:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T23:01:59","slug":"the-folly-of-ppps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/2018\/07\/29\/the-folly-of-ppps\/","title":{"rendered":"The Folly of PPPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PPPs or Public Private Partnerships are the new &#8216;blended financing&#8217; fads.<br \/>\nBut are they good for the public?<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n&#8220;PPPs also undermine democracy and national sovereignty as such contracts tend not to be transparent and subject to unaccountable international adjudication due to investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) commitments rather than national or international courts&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.malaysiakini.com\/news\/434517\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Public-private partnerships \u2013 the recent fad of PPPs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PPPs or Public Private Partnerships are the new &#8216;blended financing&#8217; fads. But are they good for the public? &#8220;PPPs also undermine democracy and national sovereignty as such contracts tend not to be transparent and subject to unaccountable international adjudication due to investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) commitments rather than national or international courts&#8221; Read more&#8230; Public-private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17,23,29,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal","category-international","category-local","category-misc","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2787,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions\/2787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}