Decisions on each bid were made using a 50% quality, 50% finance model.
"The fact is the financing model for newspapers has radically changed over the years.
This kind of "managed finance" model is no longer confined to China.
But this financing model "is no longer tenable", Mr de Rato's report says.
"The old education financing model, frankly, is no longer sustainable", Mr Newsom said.
Ms. Kroes said the new financing model should deliver innovative technologies more quickly.
She ran a team responsible for the finance model in the bidding for the West Coast Main Line franchise.
"The reality is that the financing model for public housing in America is broken," Mr. Rhea said.
The benefits of this financing model were evident in Mukuru Sinai, an informal settlement hugging an oil pipeline in Nairobi's industrial zone.
(Having seen it tried in Britain, I have some reservations about the public-private-sector financing model that underpins the "Partnership to Rebuild America").
The usual financing model – a combination of NHS and local authority grants supplemented by bank loans – is no longer sufficient, Graham stresses.
