As U.S. stimulus spending shines a spotlight on the country’s inadequate infrastructure, private sector infrastructure providers say that government effectiveness and economic conditions are the primary challenges to providing needed improvements, according to the second infrastructure survey by KPMG International, the global network of audit, tax and advisory firms.

The KPMG global survey, conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), surveyed 455 infrastructure executives, including 118 from the U.S. Among U.S. respondents, 76 percent cited governmental effectiveness as a barrier to delivering infrastructure, followed closely by 74 percent who cited economic conditions. This compares to 69 percent and 63 percent, respectively, of global respondents. Interestingly, both of these issues were of higher concern than availability of financing both in the U.S. (68 percent) and globally (60 percent).
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