The effectiveness of a place brand or a company’s brand can make the difference between success and failure. It’s not by chance that Orange is perceived as a friendlier brand compared to its commercial competitor Vodafone, or that Nike …
Most analysts believe that the credit crunch is likely to be with us through 2008 at least, and, as a result, project finance lenders for infrastructure developments, including Public Private Partnership (PPP) deals, are assessing which sectors are suitable for their …
Inflationary Pressures are Preventing Central Banks from Easing Financial Stresses -
The Good News (and the Bad) for PPP’s and PFI in the UK.
There has been a lot written and discussed recently about the UK Government’s “Sustainable Investment …
At the beginning of this month, the UK government changed the rules for profit sharing for the development of infrastructure in partnership with private companies under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), known elsewhere as public private partnership (PPP).
Almost 800 projects, worth …
Infrastructure Development Opportunities Emerge from the Downturn in the Gulf
Amidst the celebratory fireworks at the launch of Dubai’s 1,500 room Hotel Atlantis in November, there were less than celebratory murmurings about the state of the countries economy, …
Despite the global financial and economic difficulties, Abu Dhabi is continuing to develop the Masdar Initiative – to pursue “solutions to some of mankind’s most pressing issues: energy security, climate change and truly sustainable human development”.
What’s the PPP angle? Well, the government of Abu Dhabi is …
… If PFI Projects are to Proceed in the UK.
As reported in an earlier paper (see August and November 2008 blogs), many building projects under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) in the UK, in which the private sector and their bankers develop and fund major infrastructure projects and …
….But, It Is Not All Bad News 
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Not only has the global financial crisis slowed the development of most PFI projects in the U.K. (‘Public Private Finance Initiatives’ for developing infrastructure), the funding models have changed dramatically. In one extreme, the …
CREDIT CRUNCH VICTIMS SHOULD BE TURNING TO MEDIATION TO RESOLVE DISPUTES. THEY ARE NOT. WHY?
Lord Justice Jackson is in the process of preparing a report on reforming civil litigation costs. Although the results of the initial report are a …
Large organisations are notoriously risk adverse yet they need to grow. Also, people do not change unless there is a very good (usually economic) argument for them to do so that has ‘urgency’ writ large right through it.
In a …
