With countries like Guyana having promised much but delivered little in terms of public/private sector cooperation in pursuit of meaningful national development projects, a recent study on reforming the regional public sector produced by the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI) is recommending restructuring regional public service reform that focuses on the outsourcing of what has been commonly regarded as traditional public service responsibilities to the private sector.
The essence of CaPRI’s recommendation is that in circumstances where services requiring government to assume substantive risk, but which may be better delivered by private sector, management should be outsourced.
Further, the study says that in cases where private sector entities have the capacity to assume the requisite level of