The critical messages for governments to consider are:
- remain flexible and open to a variety of possible financing solutions as markets to ebb and flow
- create risk-sharing mechanisms that employ the strengths of both the public and private sectors to help ease the pressures of financial uncertainty keep project financiers working and the deals flowing
- drive new sources of funding that can open up the markets to institutional investors with deep pockets and long term commitments
If these messages are heeded, then ecomonic stimulus may mark the starting point of the response to the global infrastructure challenge.