The Secretary of Economic Politics of the Minister of Finance, Marcio Holland, said yesterday that the investments in highways, railways, ports and airports infrastructure, among others, reached R$ 153 billion by the end of 2013 and should reach R$ 265 billion by the end of this year. We have exonerated investments in Brazil, which has caused the price to invest in the country to fall consistently over the last years, he stated during the presentation at the Infrastructure Brazil Forum.
Holland once again emphasized that the most advanced economies go through a process of gradual recovery, which improves the global environment and enhances the opportunities to invest in the country. Our bottlenecks are profitable opportunities, and the world should have fewer clusters of volatility ahead, he has assessed. There may be mismatch between claims of society and investments, but they are in process. Infrastructure investments take time, but they are occurring, he said.
The secretary emphasized that the auctions for logistics infrastructure concessions have been successful because they are attractive and profitable projects. Furthermore, there is the opportunity for developing other financial instruments, such as encouraging debentures, which sum more than R$ 12 billion. The financial stability in the country facilitates the creation of those medium and long term instruments. Stretching the balance sheet is essential, he added.
He stressed that infrastructure investments have been considered the key to overcome the crisis in advanced economies, even with the use of limited budgetary resources in those countries. Imagine in Brazil, where we have the opportunity to invest in different areas, with low resource usage from the Budget. Investing in infrastructure costs, but not investing ever, costs a lot further, he said.
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