WAYS TO BOOST RETURNS ON INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT

Anthony H Rowley

Chapter 8 in Foundations of the Future:The Global Battle for Infrastructure, 2020, pp 98-103 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: 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)…

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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H54 O1 O18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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