7 mai<\/a> le d\u00e9cr\u00e9pitement des infrastructures int\u00e9rieures des USA, avec les effets sur l’\u00e9conomie.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abIf anyone doubts the problems of US infrastructure, I suggest he or she take a flight to John F. Kennedy airport (braving the landing delay), ride a taxi on the pot-holed and congested Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and try to make a mobile phone call en route.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThat should settle it, particularly for those who have experienced smooth flights, train rides and road travel, and speedy communications networks in, say, Beijing, Paris or Abu Dhabi recently. The gulf in public and private infrastructure is, to put it mildly, alarming for US competitiveness.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t(…)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bbThere are lots of ways in which infrastructure inadequacy matters to the US but I would focus on two.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbFirst, it imposes a drag on economic growth. The private infrastructure is poor enough broadband speeds lag behind other countries and mobile coverage is spotty. But much of the public infrastructure is unfit, a fact that was becoming clear even before Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans and a Minneapolis bridge collapsed during rush hour last year.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbSecond, it presents an awful image of the US to investors and other visitors. The state of transport and communications infrastructure is a symbol of a nation’s economic development and the US is starting to look like a third world country. In fact, scratch that. Many developing countries look and feel better.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbOf course, they are in a different phase of development. The US invested 10 per cent of its federal non-military budget in infrastructure in the 1950s and 1960s as it built the interstate highway system at the time, the envy of the world. While US investment has fallen to less than 1 per cent of gross domestic product, China has been matching its double-digit postwar record.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tGapper est pessimiste quant aux r\u00e9actions \u00e0 attendre des pouvoirs politiques face \u00e0 une telle situation. Peu d’hommes politiques en sont conscients aux USA. Gapper cite l’exception du gouverneur de Californie Arnold Schwarzenegger, venu en France pour voir comment fonctionne l’avenir, en un d\u00e9calage ironique mais sans surprise par rapport auxl\u00e9gendes sur l’American Dream<\/em> courant dans les salons parisiens et lib\u00e9raux: \u00abAs it happens, I heard a similar lament from Mr Schwarzenegger at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles last week. He recalled a recent visit to France during which he travelled with Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, on the country’s new high-speed train. I could not believe we were going at 350km an hour, the erstwhile film action hero marvelled.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tA la base de cette d\u00e9cadence acc\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9e dans un des domaines, l’\u00e9conomie et la puissance infrastructurellre, sur lequel l’Am\u00e9rique fonda sa puissance, il y a la question du pouvoir. Sa dispersion, son atomisation et son absence de volont\u00e9 jusqu’\u00e0 la paralysie, son encalminage dans un syst\u00e8me de communication qui interdit de m\u00eame penser \u00e0 des d\u00e9cisions volontaristes dans des domaines \u00e9lectoralement peu populaires, une base financi\u00e8re et \u00e9conomique en complet effondrement \u00e0 cause m\u00eame de cette attitude d’abdication politique, tout cela semble bien interdire tout espoir s\u00e9rieux de redressement. M\u00eame Gapper nous fait part de son scepticisme: \u00abAt times I wonder whether the world’s biggest economy has the will to solve its challenges or will end up wandering self-indulgently into the minor economic leagues. I expect it will get serious when the crisis is too blatant to ignore, but it has not done so yet.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 9 mai 2008 \u00e0 8H29<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Les commentaires et les observations s’accumulent sur la situation infrastructurelle int\u00e9rieure des USA, cela notamment depuis la mise en \u00e9vidence des \u00e9normes archa\u00efsmes et d\u00e9ficiences de fonctionnement \u00e0 l’occasion du d\u00e9sastre de Katrina en septembre 2005. John Gapper, commentateur du Financial Times, \u00e9voque le 7 mai le d\u00e9cr\u00e9pitement des infrastructures int\u00e9rieures des USA, avec les… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3228,2851,7571,7572,4153,2852,2671],"class_list":["post-69883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-crise","tag-financial","tag-gapper","tag-infrastructure","tag-schwarzenegger","tag-times","tag-us"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}