Financing Tomorrow's Infrastructure: Challenges and Issues
Proceedings of a Colloquium
1st Edition
Published on 5. June 1996
114 pages
978-0-309-58941-3 (ISBN)
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With the current emphasis on a balanced federal budget and correspondingly decreased federal participation in financing local infrastructure systems, infrastructure providers are faced with the challenge of developing new sources of capital to fund their projects. This book discusses critical infrastructure issues and brings together recognized experts in domestic and international infrastructure and finance. It provides perspectives on the issues and discusses less conventional financing techniques used in recently completed projects. This volume also discusses likely conventional financing mechanisms of the future.
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Content
- FINANCING TOMORROW'S INFRASTRUCTURE
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Contents
- Overview
- Balancing Present Costs and Future Benefits
- PUBLIC POLICY TOWARD PRIVATE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS
- PUBLIC PROJECTS: RESOURCE FLOWS AND MONEY FLOWS
- BORROWING FROM OURSELVES
- WHY FINANCING MATTERS
- Importing Investment Capital
- Tax Avoidance Strategies
- Shifting Productivity to Present
- Lax Fiscal Discipline
- SHOULD WE BUILD AND FOR WHOM
- DISCOUNTING
- EQUAL STANDING: ADDING ETHICS TO ECONOMICS
- EQUAL STANDING: ADDING ETHICS TO ECONOMICS
- FINAL WORD TO THE PRESENT
- DISCUSSION
- Infrastructure Challenges and Issues: A Panel
- Domestic Agenda
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPORT
- ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE REPORT
- U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS REPORT
- CONCLUSION
- International Perspective
- Current Issues in Infrastructure Finance
- Discussion of the Morning Presentations
- Technology, Infrastructure, and Competitiveness in a National Innovation System
- NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION SYSTEM
- FINANCING INNOVATION
- REGULATORY OBSTACLES
- ROLE OF THE NATIONAL LABORATORIES
- CONCLUSION
- Future of Infrastructure Finance
- Dulles Greenway: Private Provision of Transportation Infrastructure
- DISCUSSION
- Flexibility in Infrastructure Finance
- DISCUSSION
- Perspective of the Investment Community
- DISCUSSION
- Solutions for Local Government
- Biographical Sketches of Colloquium Participants
