mercoledì 28 novembre 2012

VITO GAMBERALE - "LOCAL PUBLIC SERVICES, BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE"

Vito Gamberale has taken part in the Ideas Lab set up by CARECS and sponsored by the Fondazione CRA foundation. The Conference, named “Local Public Services, between Public and Private” took place at Palazzo Monferrato in the late evening of November 26th 2012 in Alessandria.

 As the CEO of the F2i fund Fondi Italiani per le infrastrutture –, Vito Gamberale opened his speech with a description of Italy’s infrastructural scenario, with particular reference to the situation in Piedmont, where most of the motorway systems were built between the Fifties and Eighties.

In his speech, Vito Gamberale then examined the scenario regarding Privatisations, making a distinction between privatisations at central level, local level and privatisations today.

In presenting the role of the F2i fund, in terms of investment in infrastructure, Vito Gamberale stressed the importance of financing investments through already existing infrastructures. The infrastructure sector can be extremely profitable and profits can, and at the same time must, finance development. To this end, infrastructures need to have adequate dimensions and must not be fragmented.

By presenting the companies controlled by his Fund, Vito Gamberale illustrated the role of what is also one of the world’s largest funds dedicated to infrastructure investments in a single Country.

At the end of his speech, on the topic of local public services, Vito Gamberale denounced the local, and sometimes even municipal, dimension of a number of asset management companies and suggested starting off an aggregation process for small local entities, with a view to establishing national champions specialised in single services.

In order to do this, Vito Gamberale believes it would be necessary to activate an institutional system of capitalism to provide capital for infrastructure development and finance the establishment of large sector public companies, while ensuring that these are managed independently. The F2i fund is an example of the role trade-off between the State and Private and Local entities; established in 2007, the F2i fund has succeeded in creating a system of interacting infrastructure networks that act as a driver for the Country’s growth.


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