Table of Contents
Executive Summary — 6 Market
Overview — 7 Argentina — 7 Global
Overview — 8 Weeding Out Possible White
Elephants — 8 Mega-Urban Regions: Opportunities and
Challenges For Infrastructure — 9 Mega-Urban Regions:
Investment Opportunities And Risks — 10 Table: The
World’s 30 Largest Urban Agglomerations — 12 Table:
The World' s Richest Cities In 2020 By Gdp — 16 Table: The
World' s Fastest Growing Urban Areas — 18 SWOT
Analysis — 20 Infrastructure SWOT — 20
Argentina Political SWOT — 21 Argentina Economic
SWOT — 22 Argentina Business Environment
SWOT — 23 Major Infrastructure Developments and Key
Projects — 24 Transport Infrastructure
Overview — 24 New And Ongoing
Projects — 25 Airports — 25
Ports — 25 Road Networks — 26 Rail
Networks — 28 Energy and Utilities Infrastructure
Overview — 29 New and Ongoing
Projects — 30 Power Plants and Transmission
Grids — 30 Pipelines — 32
Water — 32 Construction Overview — 34
New And Ongoing Projects — 34 Residential
Construction — 34 Commercial
Construction — 35 Tourism
Construction — 36 Table: Argentina – Major
Infrastructure Projects - Transport — 37 Table: Argentina
– Major Infrastructure Projects - Utilites — 39
Table: Argentina – Major Infrastructure Projects -
Construction — 41 Industry Forecast
Scenario — 42 Argentina’s Infrastructure Industry
Forecast — 42 Business
Environment — 44 Regional Overview – Latin
America — 44 Table: Americas Infrastructure Business
Environment Ratings — 46 Limits Of Potential
Returns — 47 Risk to Realisation of
Returns — 47 Project Finance Ratings: Outlook for the
Americas — 48 Table: Design And Construction
Rating — 50 Table: Commissioning And Operating
Rating — 51 Table: Overall Project Finance
Rating — 53 Foreign Direct
Investment — 53 Labour Force — 54
Legal Framework — 55 Tax Regime — 55
Macroeconomic Outlook — 57 Table: Argentina - Economic
Activity — 59 Political Outlook — 60
Regional Energy Outlook — 62 Company
Monitor — 65 Skanska Latin
America — 65 Roggio — 67
Techint — 69 Country Snapshot: Argentina Demographic
Data — 71 Section 1: Population — 71
Table: Demographic Indicators, 2005-2030 — 71 Table:
Rural/Urban Breakdown, 2005-2030 — 72 Section 2: Education
And Healthcare — 72 Table:
Education — 72 Table: Life Expectancy,
2005-2030 — 72 Section 3: Labour Market And Spending
Power — 73 Table: Employment Indicators,
2001-2006 — 73 Table: Consumer Expenditure, 2000-2012
(US$) — 73 Table: Average Annual Manufacturing Wages,
1995-2001 — 74 BMI Forecast
Modelling — 75 How We Generate Our Industry
Forecasts — 75 Construction
Industry — 76 Sources — 76 Business
Environment — 76 Ratings Overview — 77
Table: Infrastructure Business Environment Indicators — 78
Project Finance Ratings Methodology — 79 Operating Risks
– Commercial Construction — 81 Operating Risks
– Energy and Utilities — 82 Operating Risks
–Transport — 83
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