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Higher education has certainly been in the spotlight this back-to-school season. From the Biden administration's announcement to forgive up to $20,000 in student loan debt to IUPUI's campus split, the [...]

Google announced $1bn of investments in Africa's digital transformation in its first ever Google for Africa event on 6 October. Over the next five years, Google's investments will focus on [...]

Located on some of the world's busiest shipping lanes, Mozambique is by no means remote; it is simply underdeveloped. Urgent investments are thus being aimed at bringing its rail, road [...]

The correlation existing between the productive physical investment and economic growth for different countries is analyzed. The long-run impact of the physical investment on the growth of an economy is also determined by the study.

Experts believe that the United States should address the problems of insufficient and aging infrastructure, if it is to maintain its status as an advanced society. The bridge collapse in Minnesota and the power outage that took place in the Northeast and Midwestern United States, were cited as examples of infrastructure problems. According to Stephen Flynn, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and authority on homeland and transportation security, the country will need to invest at least $250 billion per year in order to maintain its physical infrastructure.

The US freight system, the physical transport network in which trade moves, is the back-bone of the nation's economy. Its continued vigor determines our position in the global economy--and we […]

We've heard a lot this week about infrastructure spending, and how much more will be needed if the UK is to achieve the 'Green Industrial Revolution' that the Prime Minister [...]

An attempt is made to examine how various institutional settings affect a network provider's incentives to invest in infrastructure quality. Incentives can sometimes be improved with the introduction of downstream competition for the market.

A crisis is developing in freight transportation. We are at an inflection point among several sometimes 'hostile' elements, including shippers and carriers, trucks and railroads, the public sector and the [...]

In both the developing world and the richest nations, major portions of the power and infrastructure sectors are convulsed by crisis. In the developing world, the largest and most important [...]

WHAT WILL IT BUDGETS BE LIKE IN 2003? DEPENDS ON WHOM YOU ASK. Bur THIS much we know: IT spending will increase during 2003 anywhere from 1 to 5 percent. […]

If Mozambique provides the ideal operating environment for junior mining companies, then it also provides a similar environment for the service companies that support the mining sector. While the major [...]

THIS SESSION IS all about gathering--gathering clients in droves--not just any clients, but the right clients. It's about gathering the right assets, and gathering the best referrals. Today, I will [...]

Investments in shares should be spread to minimise risk, but many sharemarket investors do not practise diversity. The infrastructure market is often left out of share portfolios, but investment in this sector could be beneficial.

Investment in privatised public utilities in Australia is discussed, with focus on the lack of interest of large investors due to the strict regulations imposed by the state.

The United Kingdom private finance initiative (PFI) was launched in 1992 with the aim of funding major projects such as hospitals and roads. The private sector has most to gain from the PFI, which provides better margins than traditional public sector contracts after projects have started to function. There are hopes of streamlining the bidding process and achieving a standard definition of the phase at which the government begins to pay. Law firms, consultants and banks have benefited since they are paid whether or not projects go ahead.

6 Danish funds exit UNPRI over governance concerns Six Danish pension funds are leaving the United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Investment over governance concerns with the private organization, the pension [...]

Australians with a desire to invest in infrastructure projects purchased shares in developers or companies investing in Asian infrastructure projects. In 1996, an Infrastructure and Utilities index was created so Australians have the opportunity to invest in more targeted infrastructure companies and trusts representing about 1.1% of All Ordinaries. Seven companies and trusts comprise the index.

The Asian supply chains of Western companies are challenged by long distances and the amount of different parties necessary. An inadequate inland infrastructure and the difficulty of utilizing information technology have also added to the problems. Ongoing investments in China's infrastructure during the 1990s will assist the area to handle the increase in exports that expected to continue in the future., ASIAN INFRASTRUCTURE PRESENTLY PRESENTS PROBLEMS FOR WESTERNERS. WORK IS BEING DONE TO CORRECT THEM. Many Western companies find managing their Asia supply chains extremely challenging due to long distances and [...]

Coal India Ltd. (CIL) will earmark half of its $2 billion capital investments lined up for 2015-2016, on logistics and infrastructure to tide over evacuation bottlenecks in increasing production. According [...]

In early December, the City of Chicago raised sorely needed cash - roughly $1.83 billion - by leasing most of its parking meters to a consortium of three infrastructure funds [...]

Container traffic on the Yangtze River, China's leading inland transportation corridor, surged to a record 5.54 million TEUs last year, due mainly to increased domestic trade. That was a jump [...]

The three scholars are cautious. They are studying the possible benefits of developing a national marine highways system. Their preliminary findings are encouraging, but they don't want anyone jumping to [...]

Governments have their work cut out to divert private investment to all but the safest projects. Infrastructure financiers see opportunity, but worry about politics. The region's response during last year's [...]