23 Jul 2008: Lou Dobbs Report
The Lou Dobbs Report on CNN this evening contained a segment on using infrastructure projects as a new middle class economic stimulus program.
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13 May 2008: New Financiers and the Environment, Ten Perspectives on How Financial Institutions Can Protect the Environment
A new International Rivers report discusses the experience with environmental standards and how it can be useful for new financiers. The report contains ten papers written by experts from civil society, financial institutions and academia.
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11 May 2008: New ULI Report - Infrastructure 2008: A Competitive Advantage
"Infrastructure 2008: A Competitive Advantage" provides a helicopter view of infrastructure investment forecasts in a variety of sectors in the United States, China, Japan, India, and Europe.
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11 May 2008: Thoughts on Administering Public-Private Partnerships
The following email thread may be of interest to readers interested in how to increase governmental capacity to administer public-private partnerships. This is a research area that is wide-open for new thinking and inquiry.
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7 May 2008: Abstract - Risk-Profit Rebalancing Model in International Infrastructure Development
CRGP graduate student Henry Chan is examining a new hypothesis to explain the high incidence of renegotiation in long-term concession agreements between host governments and private investors. The abstract for his research project appears below:
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20 Apr 2008: Public Opposition Differences: Moving a Town or Building a Pulp Mill?
Currently, I am traveling around the world, conducting interviews for my research project. Within two days in Finland, I learned of two very large projects, each with very different levels of public support and opposition.
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19 Apr 2008: IFC Announces Global Infrastructure Project Development Fund
Infrastructure funds seeking to originate new sources of deal flow will be glad to see this announcement from the IFC.
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9 Mar 2008: CRGP 2008 Studies & Publications
CRGP researchers in the law school, business school, engineering school and department of sociology have the following studies and publications underway in 2008:
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13 Jan 2008: Nation Building: How to Invest in Canada's Infrastructure and Construction Boom
A new report from Raymond James covers the exciting things happening in the Canadian infrastructure space , province by province.
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30 Dec 2007: Doctoroff's Law
When Dan Doctoroff, former Deputy Mayor of NYC, is introduced as a dinner speaker he is often compared to a modern-day Robert Moses, the great builder.
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