That is why, in successful countries, when developing socio-economic policies,
account is taken of both national and foreign experience, paying great attention to
assessing not only economic but also social efficiency from its implementation.
However, the dominance of the neo-liberal paradigm led to the inertial and at the
same time uneven character of world development at the end of the 20th - at the
beginning of the 21st century. A characteristic consequence of this was the so-called
infrastructure gap - the growth of differences between investment needs and investment
opportunities of society [4]. Therefore, the search for financing of infrastructure
shortages, according to the World Bank, is a prime requirement for GDP growth of
countries.
Figure 1. Graphical analysis of dependence of life satisfaction on social
development of countries: the world dimension [3]
Governments in virtually all countries face the challenges of developing industrial
and social infrastructure, expanding and modernizing the means of production that they
own. But often they cannot find the appropriate financial and investment resources for
this. Destruction and aging of the infrastructure turns to society with increased costs,
negatively affects productivity, efficiency, leads to a decrease in the competitiveness
of national economies, an increase in the number of accidents, accidents, disasters [5,
6].
In the United States, for example, only in the road sector, the financing gap is
estimated at 40 billion US dollars annually.
In Canada, the situation with the infrastructure is even more serious: in 2007, the
lack of funding for the National Highway System alone exceeded 17 billion US dollars.
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