The Rise, the Fall, and ... the Emerging Recovery of Project Finance in Transport

Antonio Estache · John S. Strong

янв. 2000 г. · World Bank Publications

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Many transport projects undertaken during the boom period of the 1990s came to a crashing halt in 1997, and conditions in emerging markets worsened in 1998 and 1999. Many projects failed, victim of everything from overoptimistic forecasts to excessive debt to an inability to refinance bridge loans. As available financing dried up, many projects went bankrupt, had to be renegotiated, or were taken over by the government. What have we learned from all this?