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Category Archives: Bonds

Accounting for PFI

01-Aug-07

Bonds are on my agenda right now. In fact, approximately half my professional work is currently dedicated to their use in the public sector. So I was interested to note that the FT reported last Thursday that the introduction of International Financial Reporting Standards for UK government accounting next year will create a conundrum. This […]

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Will Hutton on the need for bond finance

01-Aug-07

Will Hutton wrote a good piece in the Guardian on Monday on the obvious need for the use of bond finance to pay for the infrastructure development this country needs. I explored this here last week.
In his article Will Hutton said:

The heart of the problem is the Treasury’s attitude towards public debt and the way […]

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Financing housing

13-Jul-07

An aspect of my work which gets little attention here, but on which I am fairly persistently engaged, relates to developing new means of raising capital for essential social infrastructure projects. I work on this issue with environmentalist and economist Colin Hines. We had the following letter in this morning’s Guardian:

The prime minister is too […]

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