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French to English: Private Investments in Infrastructure
Source text - French Investissements privés d’infrastructure
Le montant total des investissements privés d’infrastructure dans les pays en développement s’élève actuellement à près de 15 milliards de dollars par an, soit environ 7 % des 200 milliards de dollars dépensés annuellement pour l'infrastructure dans ces pays. Quoique modeste, la proportion des investissements privés dans les investissements d'infrastructure est beaucoup plus forte qu'il y a quelques années, et tout porte à croire que l'investissement privé continuera d'augmenter, allant peut-être jusqu'à doubler sa part du total d'ici l'an 2000. Ainsi, les projets d'infrastructure actuellement en cours de préparation à la SFI portent sur un montant presque aussi élevé que celui de tous les projets financés jusqu'à présent.
La modeste part globale du financement privé dans l'infrastructure masque d'importantes disparités régionales et sectorielles. Le financement privé est proportionnellement plus élevé en Amérique latine que dans les autres régions, et plus important dans les télécommunications et dans la production d'électricité que dans les autres secteurs. Et il ne fait pas de doute que le cours ininterrompu de l’innovation technique et financière rendra le financement privé plus attrayant. Par exemple, les méthodes électroniques d’identification des véhicules et de perception des péages pourraient rendre les routes plus assimilables à un service d’utilité publique et accroître la part des financements privés dans le secteur routier.
Même avec la multiplication des services d'infrastructure financés par les capitaux privés, l'Etat demeurera une importante source de financement des équipements collectifs. Il lui faudra souvent intervenir en partenariat avec les entrepreneurs privés. D'une certaine manière, l’association entre pouvoirs publics et intérêts privés marque un retour à la situation du XIXe siècle.
Translation - English Private Investments in Infrastructure
The total amount of private investments in infrastructure in developing countries currently amounts to nearly 15 billion dollars per year, or 7% of the 200 billion dollars currently being spent on infrastructure in these countries. Although modest, the proportion of private investments in infrastructure investments is much larger than a few years ago and everything leads us to believe that private investment will continue to increase, going perhaps to the point of doubling its share of the total from now to the year 2000. Thus, the infrastructure projects currently being prepared at the IFC are heading toward a total amount nearly as high as that of all financed projects up to now.
The modest global share of private financing in infrastructure masks the important regional and sectoral disparities. Private financing is proportionately higher in Latin America than in other regions and more important in telecommunications and electrical production than in other sectors. And there is no doubt that the uninterrupted progress of technical and financial innovation will make private financing more attractive. For example, electronic vehicle identification and tollbooth collection methods could make the roads more easily assimilated to public service utility and could increase the portion of private financing in the road sector.
Even with the increase in the number of infrastructure services financed by private capital, governments will remain an important source of funding for community facilities. Governmental intervention will often be necessary in partnerships between private entrepreneurs. In some respects, the association between public powers and private interests marks a return to the situation in the 19th century.
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Master's degree - Wayne State University
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Years of experience: 18. Registered at ProZ.com: Jun 2003.
I have experience in translation in the following domains: advertising, engineering, information technology, computers, CVs, and medicine. The majority of the work I do is in the medical field including translations for pharmaceutical products, hospital reports, physician surveys, and clinical trial documentation, among others.
I completed my undergraduate degree in French with a minor in Linguistics during which time I completed one year of independent study in translation (French to English) at the University of Michigan. In 2013, I completed my Master's degree in Linguistics from Wayne State University and I am currently working on a Certificate in French to English Translation through NYU's School of Continuing and Professional Studies, which I will complete in Spring 2017. Courses I have completed are:
- Introduction to Translation
- Medical Translation I
- International Organizations
- Introduction to CAT Tools
Additionally, I have extensive, hands-on experience in computers and Information Systems and am versed in both Mac and PC terminology and networking. I have more than 15 years of experience in advertising/marketing for major corporate communications firms in the automotive industry as well as experience in business communications outside the automotive domain. The types of projects I have worked on in this capacity include large and small scale live events (from high profile press conferences to internal employee meetings), videos and web-based training programs.
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