Resumen
The advantages and disadvantages provided by joining in public-private partnership reveal the challenges the economies are constrained to, pursuant to the impact of PPP on certain economic processes. There are identified forms of public-private partnership, which, in their development, are based on a number of factors: the actors involved, the origin of the financial resources, the duration of the contract, the existing traditions, types of agreement in relation to the way of sharing responsibilities and risks between public and private actors. The paper reveals studies achieved on the elements of public-private partnership, advantages, disadvantages they highlight, the forms of partnership grouped in relation to different factors, the stages pursued in the initiation of public-private partnership projects.