Contextualizemos proposta de expansão do Metro do Porto e o debate da linha ocidental na actual situação política e económica:
Assim, é absolutamente surreal acreditar na seriedade as propostas do Governo/Metro do Porto actualmente em discussão. É impressionante como o Porto se deixa enganar com tanta facilidade e não consegue contextualizar o que se esta a passar.
Neste aspecto Elisa fala fala fala fala Ferreira ao dizer que o debate tem que ser racional, prestou um melhor serviço do que Rui Moreira, que se deixou usar neste processo.
PS: Logo à noite na RTP vamos ter outro episódio da Twilight Zone.
Credit crisis, recession and PPPs
The reflationary packages of governments to counter the recession typically involve increasing public spending and borrowing. Some of these packages include investment in infrastructure – roads, bridges, railways, hospitals, schools, and the like.
Traditionally, governments themselves have borrowed money to pay for the building of infrastructure, and this is still the main way in which it is financed in most countries. In recent year, there has been an increasing tendency for governments to use public private partnerships (PPPs). These involve a private company raising the money for the investment, and then recouping that investment by operating the asset over a long period, and either charging users – a concession-style PPP – or receiving payments from government – a PFI-style PPP. The key attraction to governments of PPPs is that the finance can be counted as ‘private’ borrowing by the companies, and so does not appear as extra government borrowing; the key attraction for companies is a stream of payments guaranteed by governments for periods of 20 years or more
It might be expected that responding to the recession would increase the demand for PPPs from governments, because they are a way of building infrastructure while limiting the apparent effect on the official government deficit. The recession also provides private companies with even greater incentives to sign PPP contracts, in order to get long-term business from the government at a time when demand from the private sector is falling.
However, the credit crisis means that banks and investors are much more reluctant to lend to private companies at all. As a result, companies are practically unable to borrow money to finance PPPs. There is now clear evidence that very few new PPPs will be signed for the foreseeable future; and that existing PPPs are being affected by inability to refinance their original debt, and lower revenues because of falling demand.
- Portugal tem 500 000 casas por vender;
- Rocha Antunes, gestor de promoção imobiliária, em Maio de 2007, ainda antes da crise: «Em Portugal face às necessidades, há o triplo dos arquitectos, imobiliárias, promotores, construtores civis, empreiteiros, trolhas, engenheiros civis, etc»;
- Há 10 anos um lisboeta ressabiado com ligações familiares à TeixieraDuarte disse-me que o Metro do Porto foi desenhado à medida para a Scares da Costa ganhar o concurso; Nessa altura também em Lisboa me disseram que um político portuense da época ganhou uma comissão de 1,5 milhões de euros para facilitar a vitoria ao consorcio vencedor;
- Passivo dos 4 construtores (MEngil, SCosta, TDuarte, Somague) cresceu 20% num ano;
- Expansão do Metro do Porto em regime de Parceria Público Privada;
- Tribunal de Contas: Estado não acautela interesse público nas PPP;
- A sitação financeira não está para PPP: Credit crisis, recession and PPPs (ver introdução mais a abaixo);
- Receitas fiscais com queda de 12,3 por cento no primeiro trimestre;
- Cavaco finalmente falou contra os empresários (?) do sector dos bens e serviços não transaccionáveis que orbitam o poder em Lisboa;
- Sòcrates já caiu, diz ABCaldeira;
Assim, é absolutamente surreal acreditar na seriedade as propostas do Governo/Metro do Porto actualmente em discussão. É impressionante como o Porto se deixa enganar com tanta facilidade e não consegue contextualizar o que se esta a passar.
Neste aspecto Elisa fala fala fala fala Ferreira ao dizer que o debate tem que ser racional, prestou um melhor serviço do que Rui Moreira, que se deixou usar neste processo.
PS: Logo à noite na RTP vamos ter outro episódio da Twilight Zone.
Credit crisis, recession and PPPs
The reflationary packages of governments to counter the recession typically involve increasing public spending and borrowing. Some of these packages include investment in infrastructure – roads, bridges, railways, hospitals, schools, and the like.
Traditionally, governments themselves have borrowed money to pay for the building of infrastructure, and this is still the main way in which it is financed in most countries. In recent year, there has been an increasing tendency for governments to use public private partnerships (PPPs). These involve a private company raising the money for the investment, and then recouping that investment by operating the asset over a long period, and either charging users – a concession-style PPP – or receiving payments from government – a PFI-style PPP. The key attraction to governments of PPPs is that the finance can be counted as ‘private’ borrowing by the companies, and so does not appear as extra government borrowing; the key attraction for companies is a stream of payments guaranteed by governments for periods of 20 years or more
It might be expected that responding to the recession would increase the demand for PPPs from governments, because they are a way of building infrastructure while limiting the apparent effect on the official government deficit. The recession also provides private companies with even greater incentives to sign PPP contracts, in order to get long-term business from the government at a time when demand from the private sector is falling.
However, the credit crisis means that banks and investors are much more reluctant to lend to private companies at all. As a result, companies are practically unable to borrow money to finance PPPs. There is now clear evidence that very few new PPPs will be signed for the foreseeable future; and that existing PPPs are being affected by inability to refinance their original debt, and lower revenues because of falling demand.
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