I remember the consequences for the people we seek to represent – the crumbling schools, the inadequate hospital buildings, the faltering transport infrastructure, the nasty mood of get-rich-quick that incubated the mindless greed in the City, for which we are now all paying.
Industrial giants such as ABB and Alstom have seen orders falter for infrastructure projects, for example the building of power stations, says Andreas Willi of J.P. Morgan.Those firms with mismatches costs or debts in firm currencies but sales in depreciating ones face a nasty squeeze.
According to the World Bank report, destroyed infrastructure, faltering reconstruction, and intensified restrictions by Israel and Egypt on the movement of goods across their borders with Gaza have also prevented post-war economic recovery in the strip. .
Formally taking the helm as head of state would force the enormously popular military man to tackle mundane problems such as the country's faltering economy, failing infrastructure and unsustainable subsidy system, as well as confronting a fast-growing Islamic insurgency centered in the Sinai Peninsula.
A failed state suffers from crumbling infrastructures, faltering utility supplies and educational and health facilities, and deteriorating basic human-development indicators, such as infant mortality and literacy rates.
Germans worry about income inequalities, awful demographic projections, faltering investment levels, crumbling infrastructure, and inadequacies in higher education and in research and development.
Plans to step up spending on public infrastructure faltered after the 2008 financial crisis.
CBI director general John Cridland said the government's infrastructure policy was "faltering" amid fears that it lacked the "political will" to deliver.
In September, CBI director general John Cridland said the government's infrastructure policy was "faltering" amid fears that it lacked the "political will" to deliver.
