Table of Contents
Executive Summary — 5 Market
Overview — 6 Kuwait — 6 Global
Overview — 7 Mega-Urban Regions: Opportunities And
Challenges For Infrastructure — 8 Mega-Urban Regions:
Investment Opportunities And Risks — 9 Table: The World' s
30 Largest Urban Agglomerations — 11 Table: The World' s
Richest Cities In 2020 By GDP — 15 Table: The World' s
Fastest-Growing Urban Areas — 17 SWOT
Analysis — 19 Kuwait Infrastructure Industry
SWOT — 19 Kuwait Political SWOT — 20
Kuwait Economic SWOT — 21 Kuwait Business Environment
SWOT — 22 Major Infrastructure Developments And Key
Projects — 23 Transport Infrastructure
Overview — 23 Road Links — 23 Steaming
Ahead With Railway Development — 23 Travelling By
Air — 24 Utilising Its Coastline — 24
New And Ongoing Transport Projects — 25
Airports — 25 Ports — 25 Road
Networks — 26 Rail Networks — 27
Energy And Utilities Infrastructure Overview — 28 New And
Ongoing Energy and Utility Projects — 30 Power Plants and
Transmission Grids — 30 Water — 31
Pipelines And Refineries — 31 Construction
Overview — 32 New And Ongoing
Projects — 33 Commercial
Construction — 33 Residential
Construction — 33 Table: Kuwait – Major
Infrastructure Projects – Transport — 34 Table:
Kuwait – Major Infrastructure Projects -
Utilities — 35 Table: Kuwait – Major Infrastructure
Projects - Construction — 36 Industry Forecast
Scenario — 37 Table: Construction and Industry
Data — 37 Risks — 39 Business
Environment — 40 Regional Overview – Middle East And
Africa — 40 Kuwait: Business Environment
Rating — 43 Table: Regional Infrastructure Business
Environment Ratings — 43 Limits Of Potential
Returns — 44 Risk To Realisation Of
Returns — 44 Foreign Direct
Investment — 44 Labour Force — 45
Legal Framework — 46 Tax Regime — 47
Corruption — 48 Macroeconomic
Outlook — 49 Table: Kuwait - Economic
Activity — 51 Political Outlook — 52
Company Monitor — 55 Table: Key
Players — 55 Kharafi National — 56
United Real Estate Company — 57 Al-Ahlia Contracting
Group — 58 Kuwait Company For Process Plant Construction &
Contracting (KCPC) — 59 Gulf
Consult — 60 Table: Gulf Consult
Projects — 60 Country Snapshot: Kuwait Demographic
Data — 61 Section 1: Population — 61
Table: Demographic Indicators, 2005-2030 — 61 Table:
Rural/Urban Breakdown, 2005-2030 — 62 Section 2: Education
And Healthcare — 62 Table: Education,
2002-2005 — 62 Table: Vital Statistics,
2005-2030 — 62 Section 3: Labour Market And Spending
Power — 63 Table: Employment Indicators,
1997-2006 — 63 Table: Consumer Expenditure,
2000-2012 — 63 BMI Forecast
Modelling — 64 How We Generate Our Industry
Forecasts — 64 Introduction — 65
Ratings Overview — 65 Table: Infrastructure Business
Environment Indicators — 66 Construction
Industry — 67 Sources — 67
|