PFI

While the term PFI originated in the UK, in that country it is not synonymous with PPP.

PSD Blog - The World Bank Group Filip Drapak 2009

The great unexplored area of public expenditure is the annual revenue consequences of servicing the long-term PFI debts, all a consequence of investment in new hospitals, courts, schools, roads, IT and water and waste infrastructure.

Stop protecting PFI contracts Allyson Pollock 2010

Whereas the use of PFI is being questioned both in Holyrood and in the Senedd, not so in Stormont, where PFI is likely to play a big role in the infrastructure projects targeted by the Emerald Investment Development Fund.

Archive 2008-04-01 2008

(Note that PFI is used to finance plenty of other public areas).

Central Region Jeff 2007

Consultants, large chunks went in fees for Private Sector Management Consultants (all teaching Granny to suck eggs) - and the overwhelming bulk of the supposed "investment" went in the front door, down the corridor and into a truck at the back labelled PFI shareholder pockets - it certainly didn't stay in the NHS.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

The figures suggest that hospitals built under private financing deals known as PFI were costing the health service six times what they were worth.

BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2010

The PFI is the only Muslim organisation that has said that the police crackdown is a witchunt against the community.

Latest News Online - Express Indian 2010

The bad reason is that the PFI is a way of massaging public-debt figures.

The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2010

The bad reason is that the PFI is a way of massaging public-debt figures.

The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2010

(link) I wouldn't say Brown's record is appalling - although I think there are big questions over whether PFI was actually good value for money or a sensible way to build well-designed hospitals.

amuchmoreexotic: A simple but brilliant theory amuchmoreexotic 2007