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Ways To Boost Returns On Infrastructure Investment

In: FOUNDATIONS OF THE FUTURE The Global Battle for Infrastructure

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A perennial problem with infrastructure financing is that projects (those involving road and rail transportation in particular) usually involve very large up-front expenditures running into many billions of dollars while the return on investment may often be insufficient to attract private investment, and even then, returns are typically spread out over a period of many years or even decades. Naoyuki Yoshino, former Dean of the Asian Development Bank Institute in Tokyo, is convinced that he has found a way to overcome this mismatch between risk and reward by capturing the hidden or “spillover” returns that transport infrastructure in particular can generate over time — and returning it to investors in order to raise returns and make infrastructure investment a more attractive proposition (personal communication, 2019)…

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  • Anthony H Rowley, 2020. "Ways To Boost Returns On Infrastructure Investment," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: FOUNDATIONS OF THE FUTURE The Global Battle for Infrastructure, chapter 8, pages 98-103, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789811218040_0008
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    Keywords

    Infrastructure; Battle; Belt and Road; BRI; Connectivity; AIIB. ADB. MDBs. Financing Gap; Poverty; Strategic; Logistics; Great Game; China; United States; Europe; Asia; Disasters; Environment; Climate Change; Engineering; Highways; Railways; Communications; Energy; Water; India; Australia; AAGC; Trilateral Partnership; SDGs; Sustainable Investment; Corruption;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
    • H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures
    • O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development

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