In one of the more unexpected twists of the Egyptian migration to a fairer economy, collaboration of commercial and state interests in public-private partnerships (PPPs) could resurface before the end of this year to develop crucial and sorely lacking infrastructure. “If everything goes as we are planning, we will be tendering out one to two projects by the end of this year and another two to three projects in the first and second quarters of next year,” says Atter Hannoura, the director of Egypt’s PPP Central Unit at the Ministry of Finance. Even though it was maligned before the revolution as a lackey of the old regime, the unit has been preparing a portfolio of new projects while the country rethought its politics. Hannoura would not put a number to the cumulative value of projects in the PPP pipeline because most are at the stage where pre-feasibility studies have yet
