Sentences with phrase «huge infrastructure projects»

He describes a number of projects that moulded him during the course of his early career: «As a junior lawyer I had the opportunity from day one to advise on huge infrastructure projects.

Not only am I involved there in the construction phase of the project but also its financing aspect, sometimes dealing with more than one syndicate of lenders especially in huge infrastructure projects.

Local investors have had to play second - fiddle to their foreign counterparts in the financing of huge infrastructure projects under government's Public Private Partnership programme.

Nicole Gelinas, of the Manhattan Institute, recently wrote in City and State that «Cuomo evidently did not make an important resolution: stop announcing huge infrastructure projects without a way to pay for them.»

«Almost by definition, huge infrastructure projects, especially those in the developing world, are white elephants,» says Lam of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Not exact matches

China's huge state - owned infrastructure companies, hampered by their own country's gradual slowdown, need projects that will keep their foundries blazing and their workers paid while the nation makes the transition to a less industrial, more consumer - driven economy.

In addition, a lot of money has been spent on infrastructure, but a huge number of projects have been stalled — India has more than $ 500 billion in nonproductive infrastructure assets, including unfinished roads and bridges.

Wang Yiming, deputy head of the Development Research Centre of China's State Council, said at the forum that although many belt and road projects were funded by major financial institutions — including the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, New Development Bank, China Development Bank (CDB), the Export - Import Bank of China and the Silk Road Fund — there was still a huge funding gap of up to US$ 500 billion a year.

That's the huge infrastructure challenge faced by Indonesia, and one that Google hopes to address using its high altitude «Project Loon» balloons.

For all the hopes of British engineering companies receiving huge consulting fees for infrastructure projects, it seems China is determined to use its own engineers and advisers, or sometimes the local ones.

Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi, a low - profile minister with a high - impact portfolio, must hammer out huge bilateral deals with all the provinces for their slices of $ 33 billion in federal funds for ribbon - cutting - worthy projects like big public transit expansions.

«At a time when New York has huge unmet infrastructure needs — for transportation, in particular — it's really indefensible to borrow $ 1.1 billion for capital pork barrel projects,» he wrote in an email.

Our skills survey shows that many of the UK's engineering employers are suffering from engineering skills gaps, shortages and an ageing workforce, and this will only get worse in the future when huge numbers of engineers and technicians are forecast to be needed for new infrastructure and energy projects.

The project has bipartisan support and huge importance to the regional and national economy, which is why it topped the Trump transition team's infrastructure priority list in late 2016.

Oswego has just won two New York state water fund grants that the city's mayor said is a huge breakthrough in their effort to tackle a major infrastructure project.

Think of it this way: At the moment, a larger portion of household earnings in China are tucked away in banks, where they are loaned out and used to fund massive infrastructure projects — highways, dams, power plants — which release huge amounts of CO2.

They have led to expensive infrastructure projects and placed huge demands on public transport.

Seen in the broader context of China's colossal One Belt One Road infrastructure project, the impact of this on future trade dynamics for global fashion players could be huge.

Then there's the bizarre lack of US PPP projects, which means there's a potentially huge opportunity for private capital to absorb much of this infrastructure spending.

«Tourism is currently the country's second largest industry and this has huge significance for the economy as US$ 80 billion worth of investment into key infrastructure projects including airport expansion, railways and roads comes to fruition in the next ten years,» remarks Walsh.

Reacting to the report, Benjamin Sporton CEO of World Coal Association says: «Developing energy infrastructure is complex particularly for huge projects like a large coal station.

Huge doubts remain over the potential of the UN-backed Green Climate Fund, which becomes operational this year, but Lubber cites the growth in the green bonds sector as evidence banks are starting to see the potential of low carbon infrastructure projects.

As this is a huge project encompassing many countries, the question remains, is the supply chain sufficiently strong and flexible to build up the infrastructure?

Large - scale infrastructure projects present huge procurement challenges.

With a huge infra deficit and investment flooding in, we assess the bellwether projects — and their advisers — defining Africa's infrastructure market.

«There is a huge infrastructure boom going on in Ontario today and the projects we are focusing on are those that are 500 metres from public transit,» he says.