Of the challenges they face now, most of it is physical, such as infrastructure.
Before the crisis, they financed a lot of long-term assets such as infrastructure.
Spending on many of our key priorities, such as infrastructure, did not suffer the scale of cuts previously anticipated.
The best-performing shares are not in sectors that would benefit from a recovery, such as infrastructure and banks.
It would also leave more money for growth-boosting policies, such as infrastructure investment.Inequality would be reduced, too.
Scale is also important in winning government contracts in fast-growing areas such as infrastructure, health care and education.
Many firms in capital-intensive industries such as infrastructure, steel, telecoms, power and property badly need to cut their debt.
Items to choose from the "excuse bag" are events such as infrastructure failings, personnel shortfalls, and the immigration department's failure to provide information.
More specialist investment trust options include funds that buy illiquid assets, such as infrastructure and private equity, where open-ended funds' fluctuating size makes investment much less practical.
State finances will be jiggled so that money goes to where it is thought good for growth, such as infrastructure spending.
To widespread surprise, the president created a new agency aimed at accelerating badly needed projects, such as infrastructure and the reform of the country's unwieldy civil service.
