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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825807303321

Titolo

Financing tomorrow's infrastructure : challenges and issues : proceedings of a colloquium, October 20, 1995 / / Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, National Research Council

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1996

ISBN

0-309-17535-6

1-280-21068-0

9786610210688

0-309-58941-X

0-585-08516-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (113 p.)

Soggetti

Infrastructure (Economics) - Finance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Proceedings of a colloquium held at the National Academy of Sciences.

Nota di contenuto

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.