Georgetown Public Policy Review
Policy Shaping Our Future
By Dennis Lytton The first infrastructure bank bill was proposed by Congress in 2007, and some iteration of it has been reintroduced in every Congress since. Beginning in 2009, the Obama Administration identified the creation of a National Infrastructure Bank (NIB) as an important goal for enhancing surface transportation financing. The President recently renewed that […]
By James Habyarimana and William Jack A recent spate of horrific road crashes has brought the dangers of the developing world’s roads to light. A recent bus crash in western Kenya killed all 41 people on board, and 51 perished when a bus went off a cliff in Peru. Global statistics corroborate these accounts: 1.3 million […]