Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) have been launched as an alternative to reduce the debt burdens of African countries towards China, and as a way of rehabilitating the often bad images of Chinese enterprises. This paper looks at the use of PPPs involving Chinese actors in Ethiopia.
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This paper looks at the use of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) involving Chinese actors in Ethiopia. PPPs have been launched as an alternative to reduce the debt burdens of African countries towards China, and as a way of rehabilitating the often bad image of Chinese enterprises as brutely profit maximizing, socially unconscious, and environmentally destructive. This paper explores the sectors which PPPs are implemented, the rationale behind the PPPs, and whether they succeed in rehabilitating the image of Chinese enterprises.