Cross-Border Infrastructure: A Toolkit
Does Ownership Really Matter?
Focus Group Discussion
Session on Private Sector Participation
Yong Hee Kong
PPP Resource & Research Centre, Kuala Lumpur
The views expressed here are those of the presenter and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies
of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), or its Board of Directors, or the governments they represent.
Cross-Border Infrastructure: A Toolkit
Group Discussion Guide
• Overview of ownership policies of the Greater Mekong
Subregion (GMS) countries - Who and what can they
own (land, equity, other assets)?
• Why is ownership important to the state and to the
private investor?
• Is ownership more important to a foreign investor than
a domestic investor?
• What are the pros and cons to the state having a more
liberal ownership policy vis-à-vis infrastructure
development?
Cross-Border Infrastructure: A Toolkit
Group Discussion Guide (continued)
• Should ownership rules be different for different sectors
or classes of assets (e.g. land, equity, national security
projects, cross-border, etc.)?
• What are possible options/solutions to the ownership
issues (to private investor) to promote national
infrastructure development?
Cross-Border Infrastructure: A Toolkit
Group Discussion Guide
• Individual group discussions (25 minutes)
• Group presentations (10 minutes) with question and
answer (5 minutes)
• Summation and open discussion (10 minutes)
Ground Rules:
 No
fighting, can argue
 Strictly
P&C