Reconstruction & Recovery
Reconstruction as a twenty-year project
Recovery programmes are announced in five-year frames because that is how political attention works. The actual work runs on a much longer clock.
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Damage assessment, recovery financing, construction capacity and the institutions being built to spend it well.
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How to tell whether recovery is working
Money committed is not a measure of recovery. Nor is money spent. The useful indicators are physical and social, and they are harder to report.
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Working alongside a development bank: what changes when the EBRD is in the deal
Ukraine's largest institutional investor is not a company. Understanding how a development bank underwrites, what it requires and what it de-risks is now a core commercial…
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Italian industry and the recovery agenda
Italy hosted a recovery conference and has an industrial profile that maps unusually well onto what reconstruction actually needs.
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Turkish contractors and Ukrainian reconstruction
Turkish construction firms are among the most experienced in the world at building in difficult places. What they can offer Ukraine is specific, and so are…
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Reconstruction and the climate commitment
Recovery money arrives with environmental conditions attached. Treating them as an imposition misses that most of them reduce the operating cost of what is being built.
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Veterans in the construction economy
A large number of people returning from service, and a construction sector short of tens of thousands of workers. The match is obvious and it does…
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Building for a population that has to want to come back
Reconstruction assumes people will return. That assumption is a decision made by millions of individuals, and it is made on entirely practical grounds.
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Rebuilding without deepening regional gaps
Reconstruction money follows damage, and damage is concentrated. That is correct and it produces a second-order problem worth naming in advance.
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Moving materials to where they are needed
A reconstruction programme is, in tonnage terms, mostly a haulage exercise. Whether the tonnage can physically move is a question asked too late.
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The machines that do the rebuilding
Reconstruction requires excavators, crushers, concrete plants and crane capacity. Ukraine does not have enough of them, and that is a more immediate constraint than money.
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Supplying materials at reconstruction scale
Cement, steel, bitumen and aggregate are the four inputs that determine whether a construction programme is possible, and each has a different constraint.
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