Thursday, January 5, 2012

India's Infrastructure Woes

A very interesting analysis in The Economist about the current infrastructure issues facing India today:

"For the past half decade India’s infrastructure industry has enjoyed a Sea Link moment; a blast of growth when one could imagine that the private sector could deliver all the new roads, bridges, power stations and airports that the country needs so badly. The government says the boom will continue. Over the next five years it predicts that infrastructure investment will reach a new high relative to GDP, with some $1 trillion spent, half of it by the private sector. The trouble with this rosy prediction is that the balance-sheets of many Indian infrastructure firms are as potholed as the roads they resurface."

That Sea Link bridge in Mumbai is pretty sweet though:


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