They also need to be firm that innovative private sector solutions like Public Private Partnerships and other fully private sector-based investments must be advanced to drastically reduce the exposure of particularly middle income Americans from the high costs of these projects.

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It is clear that the rebuilding of public and private sector balance sheets across advanced economies will continue to constrain global growth for some time.

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While structural issues such as regulation, sovereign finance, antitrust or citizenship restrictions on investment have various effects on the airline industry's finances, neither the private nor public sector has advanced a comprehensive analytically-based framework to optimise industry economics.

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