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Cyberport chairman Lee George Lam also heads the Asia-Pacific Business Network to implement the UN's sustainable development goals.

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UN takes high-tech path to sustainable development goals

The most crucial of the goals is implementation and that means tapping private sector expertise.

Nevil Gibson

Fri, 20 Apr 2018

Finance Minister Grant Robertson says “We want to work with those in the private sector."

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‘Significant opportunity’ for private sector investment in Auckland infrastructure

Grant Robertson says he wants to partner with the private sector to fund Auckland's infrastructure needs.

NBR Contributor

Mon, 11 Dec 2017

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Ateed turns to private sector to help capture Auckland’s growth

The symposium is an opportunity to talk more about Auckland's future economic growth.

Mon, 27 Mar 2017

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SUBSCRIBER-ONLY POLL RESULT: Should foreign companies be allowed to bid for major infrastructure public private partnerships?

A majority of NBR ONLINE subscribers polled say foreign companies should be allowed to throw their hat in the ring for public-private partnerships.

NBR Contributor

Fri, 06 Dec 2013

Geoff Dangerfield

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NZTA responds to corruption allegations against Leighton

New Zealand Transport Agency chief executive Geoff Dangerfield says the agency is fully informed about corruption allegations levelled at Leighton Holdings, the Australian parent of the lead bidd

Tue, 03 Dec 2013

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Labour’s 'u-turn' on privatisation is nothing of the sort

For over a decade now, if National has so much as suggested a contract cleaner for a university, Labour has howled “privatisation by stealth!” So when Labour finance spokesman David Cunliffe yesterday told an academic audience in Wellington that there should be more private investment in state-owned enterprises and more public-private partnerships, it looked like a significant u-turn.

Fri, 26 Nov 2010

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How PPPs change the game

Last week's announcement requiring Crown agencies to consider alternative procurement options for new infrastructure projects kicked up a flurry of concern from privatisation critics.Speaking to NBR last week, NZ Council for Infrastructure Development (NZCID) chief executive Stephen Selwood explained that public private partnerships (PPPs) do change the risk burden for the public sector – though not quite in the way the critics think.

NBR Contributor

Tue, 17 Aug 2010

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