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Page 1 of 24 CG/LA provides a Graph of the Day to help our clients and partners better understand the rapid pace of change in the global infrastructure marketplace. Today’s graph is titled Financing North American Infrastructure.  Last week we surveyed top leaders in the industry asking one simple – yet powerful- question: “What is your current perception of your Infrastructure Market?” The result, 51% of executives responded that the market is ‘getting worse’. According to Census Data and a USA Today analysis, infrastructure investment will drop 7% this year and would mark the first decline in state and local construction spending in almost 20 years. Clearly, something needs to be done.
Our survey also revealed that U.S. executives think that lack of financing is the most problematic issue facing infrastructure project development. This is scary, especially when most states are cutting their budgets while 70% of all infrastructure spending occurs at local level. Despite this dependency on an ever-shrinking public budget, only half of the states in the country have legislation that allow public-private partnerships. The United States is falling behind China in building the infrastructure that will fuel competitiveness over the next century and lack of P3 legislation deprives the states of even a full tool kit.
There are many challenges to renewing North American infrastructure competitiveness, but also many opportunities. Of US infrastructure executives surveyed, 70% see greatest opportunities for their firms in the domestic market followed by those of Canada and Mexico.
In our coming 2nd Annual North American Strategic Infrastructure Leadership Forum, we will hold a series of round table discussions around financing the Next Generation’s infrastructure including PPP opportunities and the creation of the National Infrastructure Bank. We have also identified more than 400 billion dollars in the Top 100 North American Projects that, if properly funded, have the potential to produce over 500,000 jobs.
CG/LA provides a Graph of the Day to help our clients and partners better understand the rapid pace of change in the global infrastructure marketplace. Today’s graph is titled Global Digital Infrastructure - Basic Capacity. Comparisons of infrastructure quality and price across countries is difficult, but it is necessary and must be done. Such real comparisons allow you to see the real investments that the US needs to make if we are going to compete with the rest of the world - we are far behind in most categories, with diminishing investments levels, and declining results per $US invested. A recent book, The Betrayal of American Prosperity, by Clyde Prestowitz, illustrates this general point through measurements of one specific area, the massive US gap in Digital Capacity (see graph). While average internet speed in the US is 3.6 Mbps, for which we pay an average of nearly $3.00/month, the average in Korea is 49.5 Mbps, for which they pay $0.37, and so on. Low quality, high cost, is our bargain in the digital space, and across the infrastructure spectrum. Singapore is rolling out a system that is 30 times faster than the average in the US, free across the city-state. We have not only fallen far behind, but have virtually no idea of how far that is... And this is in an infrastructure that is (a) easily measured, and (b) in which you can make apples to apples comparisons. In many other areas the comparative information that is available is completely meaningless - the urban mass transit figures, for example, have no meaning in a comparative sense, when Europe gets twice the track per $US invested, and China gets 10x the track per $US invested. What is the solution? Please give me your ideas email me any thoughts you might have. CG/LA provides a Graph of the Day to help our clients and partners better understand the rapid pace of change in the global infrastructure marketplace. Today’s graph is titled US Infrastructure Investment. We welcome your feedback! See space provided below.
The US invests under 1.5% of infrastructure in GDP, a level that has been declining since 1980. The country needs to invest a minimum of 3% of GDP for a period of 10 years if we are to increase economic productivity and global competitiveness. This is the solution to the jobs, jobs, jobs exhortation. One of the key components in addressing this issue is the creation of a National Infrastructure Budget.
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传奇私服地图是肯定没用刷了！可雇用的峰可以使用，但在我的测试，告诉你远离性的影响是难以触发，因为你不是通过物理攻击，魔法攻击的吃你疯war占领，如果你已经开始举行一把匕首，两把刀想触发此效果，但你不是刺客，你坚持速度不够快，他很快就比较慢，你不能打别人没有问题，是他看见你的刺客悲剧甚至不会提出什么你甚至不能死，这个职业总是与抗-魔术师比我看过的意志'拉'剑魂刺客此举直接链接是死的最低，但我估计也将运行的悲剧，但我有这个30秒是不够的，赶上竞争对手后，添加国家使用的技能，即使你不添加状态，然后用Xianpao的幽灵，然后加用总线状态招聘尼古拉，技能不直接到第二个他！ 传奇私服
Our company (IICC) is for want of a better description a "do-good merchant bank." We are talking about setting up a $500 million dollar Fund that would be called the Caribbean American Friendship Fund that will work initially in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. This is one of the reasons I am asking about Haiti and the DR by 传奇私服
Nice graph!
I am missing the investment amount in terms of the GDP.
Good job
I agree with you
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To - Norman Anderson -
This is a fascinating chart and should be published more widely. What would be some examples of Green Energy (high speed rail seems clear)? Also, what would be a good multiplier to use for emerging countries, e.g. Haiti? I would also guess that making bio-diesel from Jatropha in Haiti would fall in this category and Green Energy too.
My name is Len Chaikind and I am the Chairman & CEO of a company named Institutional Investors Consulting Company (or IICC) that is located in Houston, Texas. One of our clients is called Interex Global and they (Don Nicholas) will be speaking at the CG / LA conference in Houston next week about Jatropha.
Our company (IICC) is for want of a better description a "do-good merchant bank." We are talking about setting up a $500 million dollar Fund that would be called the Caribbean American Friendship Fund that will work initially in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. This is one of the reasons I am asking about Haiti and the DR.
Len Chaikind
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