Blackrock specialists in their annual review of key trends in the financial markets are looking for answers to the questions that 2022 has asked.
In this report the Center for Strategic Research (CSR) assesses, based on a survey of public officials, the readiness of executive bodies and local authorities to use AI technologies and reviews the pros and cons of working with such technologies.
Everyone is scrambling to come to terms with the outbreak of COVID-19. That includes business leaders, of course. In the past days, we’ve heard from CEOs about the questions they’re asking and the steps they’re taking. We recommend a set of immediate actions as well as a set of critical questions that CEOs should ask about something difficult but important to address right now: how to plan for what comes after.
A year before the COVID-19 outbreak, we argued in Winning the ’20s that the basis of competitive advantage was shifting. The combination of technology-fueled change, the rise of new learning technologies, and declining long-term growth rates, which require accelerated innovation, called for companies to compete on their rate of learning.
In 2018, Russia launched a major reform aimed at developing the construction sector and solving the problems associated with shared construction. It is planned to start the transition to project financing using escrow accounts in mid-2019. The publication by PwC studies the effect of using escrow accounts.
This report by InfraONE Research reveals the sources of funding infrastructure projects in Russia, reviews recent regulation changes for concessions and PPPs, and touches upon current trends in infrastructure projects in Japan and China.
The overview is published to inform the market participants and other stakeholders about the most urgent problems with infrastructural investments.
