Infrastructures. Time to Invest
The Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), concerned about the future of their national infrastructures, have prepared a report, Infrastructures: Time to Invest, that is likely to be of interest beyond the Netherlands. “The WRR is concerned about the quality of Dutch infrastructures [sewers, energy, telecom, water, etc.] in the long term. The attention devoted by administrators and market players to short-term effects geared towards efficiency, consumer interest and cost, has a detrimental effect on investment in the public interest in the long term.”
Download the report’s table of contents and executive summary here.
A collection of papers (including Professor Bill Melody’s “Private Equity Funds and Public Utilities: Where Incentive Structures Collide”), were prepared for this report and published under New Perspectives on Investment in Infrastructures (v19 jun 08) by Amsterdam University Press. These are also available for download. Click here for the information page or here to download the collection in .pdf.
Colleagues at the University of Delft contributed to the content of this report, as did Professor Melody whose contributions on private equity were called attention to in the media coverage around the report, which was presented this week to the Minister of Finance, Labour leader and deputy prime minister Wouter Bos.
Download Dutch newspaper articles here and here (thanks Hendrik!).
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