Following a period of subdued activity, a steady flow of projects in 2019 have seen Trinidad and Tobago’s construction industry experience healthier growth in recent years. However, obtaining private sector funding remains a challenge, due to a decline in banks’ lending activity. Nevertheless, in November 2019 Glenn Mahabirsingh, president of the T&T Contractors...
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Articles & Analysis | Construction in Trinidad and Tobago to recover on the back of large-scale infrastructure projects from The Report: Trinidad & Tobago 2020
Articles & Analysis | Data-driven technologies to revolutionise construction sectors of emerging economies from The Report: Trinidad & Tobago 2020
Around 55% of the world’s population – or 4.2bn people – lived in urban areas in 2018, up from 47% in 2000, according to the UN. Because of the rapid rate of urbanisation, this figure is expected to reach 68% by 2050, with growth concentrated in Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. The shift towards the cities put the onus on the...
Chapter | Construction & Real Estate from The Report: Trinidad & Tobago 2020
Following a period of subdued activity, a steady flow of projects in 2019 has seen Trinidad and...
Trinidad and Tobago is the largest producer of oil and gas in the Caribbean. While there is a need to diversify the economy away from its dependence on hydrocarbons, a number of new discoveries in late 2019 appear set to support a short-term recovery in the energy sector and lend financing to the wider economy.
Articles & Analysis | Rapid urbanisation and young, growing populations put pressure on emerging markets to solve housing deficits from The Report: Ghana 2020
Urbanisation is a mega-trend redefining contemporary life in both developed and emerging markets across the world. This mass rural-to-urban movement of people and expansion of cities to absorb formerly isolated villages is a relatively recent phenomenon, at least in the developing world.
Articles & Analysis | China’s implementation of a new trade network is energising the global construction industry from The Report: Ghana 2020
From 206 BCE to 220 CE, China’s Han dynasty fostered a booming trade industry for silk, a precious commodity in high demand among the elites of the Mediterranean. The Silk Road was the name given to the network of trade routes connecting the East and West at the time. Later, spices and other precious cargo would be traded using the system,...