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WOS-000279603000026	Custos, D	Public-Private Partnerships	2010		.txt	text/plain	328	8	33	With respect to transportation infrastructure, such as highways and bridges, the term refers to a family of relatively new contract types, actively promoted by the federal government for use by state governments, such as Operations and Maintenance or Design-Build-Finance-Operate-Maintain, by which the government is able to shift much of the financing, maintenance, and/or operating cost for public infrastructure to private contractors, who may then be allowed to recoup their costs through tolls or other user payments, thus enabling the government to use the market to accomplish its purposes and to relieve public budgets of the financial burden associated with infrastructure upgrading and maintenance. By extension, the term has been applied broadly to all types of contracting out of important government services, including such things as schools and prisons, provision of health care, and even the administration of state welfare programs and financial rescue of the economy.	cache/WOS-000279603000026.txt	txt/WOS-000279603000026.txt
