ABSTRACT
It is now a commonplace observation that there is a world-wide trend for governments to withdraw from the production and delivery of goods and services and to look to private individuals, firms and nongovernment organizations to undertake that role. There is a rather weaker or lagging trend for governments to assume the parallel roles of ‘enabling’ and regulating those who undertake the production role. A third trend is for the public/private boundary to become blurred by the development of new modalities of working together.1
