Infrastructure Finance - In Focus
Euromoney Trading Ltd, January 2009
An incisive collection of ten key articles, "Infrastructure Finance in Focus"
Infrastructure finance is proving vital for the development of emerging and developed economies. But how is red tape holding this investment back? What roles are governments, local banks, foreign investors and development institutions playing in infrastructure projects?
Essential reading for professionals involved in PPPs, infrastructure and project finance. This one-off PDF report gives you thought-provoking opinion and analysis on the major concerns in infrastructure finance today.
Infrastructure Finance in Focus features articles from leading financial publications including; EuroWeek, Project Finance, Euromoney Magazine, Emerging Markets, Infrastructure Finance: Trends and Techniques (by Euromoney Books).
Articles include:
The challenges of change - Project Finance
Despite formidable obstacles, public-private partnership (PPP) transactions have proven their staying power in the United States (US) over the past 15 years, and the level of enthusiasm remains high among the most prominent players in the industry...
Project finance: red tape must be cleared - EuroWeek
Improving transport, power, water and other infrastructure is vital to progress in India, but as well as government money, this will need private investment. Indian banks are running out of capacity and urgent action is required to remove barriers to foreign investment...
The famished road - Emerging Markets
Encouraged by a projected flurry of new projects in Africa, local banks, development institutions and foreign investors have plunged into projects to develop Africa's infrastructure and unleashed a tide of liquidity previously unseen in the continent…
Infrastructure Finance: Trends and techniques (Euromoney Books)
The role of development banks in infrastructure finance, World Bank views - Key considerations in financing infrastructure in developing economies…
Infrastructure finance: Brazil faces up to infrastructure gaps - Euromoney Magazine
"There is a gap in [financial] creativity. There is a gap in [financial] alternatives. It is these gaps that all the banks are working to fill – with the projected quantity of infrastructure projects, these gaps need filling," - Jean Pierre Dupui, head of credit markets at Santander Brazil...
The creed according to B&B - Project Finance
In Project Finance Magazine's 2007 market survey Babcock & Brown (B&B) topped the poll for most popular dinner date. Bankers' enthusiasm for a meeting reflects B&B's healthy appetite for new deals, its business model is holding up, and that it usually has a conservative approach to…
Infrastructure Finance: Trends and techniques (Euromoney Books)
The World Bank's lessons from financing infrastructure. After a decade of rapid growth, infrastructure lending reached $8.5bn in 1987, representing half of total bank lending in that year. In the next 4 years, infrastructure lending declined sharply to an average of…
Municipal borrowers explore the PPP option - EuroWeek
It has taken some time but at last parts of western Europe appear to be embracing the public-private partnership model that the UK developed almost two decades ago…
Loonie boons? - Project Finance
The Canadian provincial PPP pipeline is gushing with new deals, and the federal government is also beginning to initiate its own programme. However, debt pricing has increased significantly over the last year, and there are more projects than there are builders. Both spell challenging times for provinces, though less so their grateful bankers…
Credit crunch hits project bonds as bank market feels the strain – EuroWeek
The credit crunch has tightened investment conditions in project finance. Although there are no new credit concerns about European infrastructure financings, banks and monolines have been pinched elsewhere in their balance sheets…
Topics covered:
- Project Finance
- PPP
- Emerging Markets
- Power
- Water
- Project Finance
- EuroWeek
- Emerging Markets
- Euromoney
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