This imbalance creates some inefficiencies:

Challenges in designing, executing and operating infrastructure involving multiple levels of government

  • The need for significant fund transfers between different ordersof government
  • Scarcity of talent and systems required to deliver projects at a more distributed level
  • Limited opportunity to document and broadly share best practices across the nation
  • Increased likelihood of optimization for local, rather than national, interests 

 

 

 

 

 

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