The percentage of sole proprietorships and partnerships has also increased.
Monitoring partnerships has revealed the difference they can make.
Funding for school sport partnerships has been abolished by the government.
Paxson, as has become the norm in many star-crossed partnerships, has a different view.
Since then, the idea of public-private partnerships has become a hallmark of the Parks Department.
Since the Financing for Development conference in June, talk about public private partnerships has become unavoidable.
In the meantime, the number of heterosexual couples opting for registered partnerships has jumped from 1,500 in 1999 to 8,343 last year, while the number of same-sex partnerships has stayed steady around 500 since 2001.
John Tysseland, a Citigroup analyst who covers infrastructure master limited partnerships, has a buy rating on Enterprise.
One of the most successful partnerships has been the design, development and management of EDF Energy's Sustainable Schools programme (www.jointhepod.org).org
"Your list of England's first innings partnerships has seven different values, all between 1 and 49," notes Gregor Salsa.
Houston's approach to business partnerships has been to appeal to a restricted group of household names that are given greater value from their investments.
