The system used to fund projects will assist in containing some of the inflationary pressures. The major developers or Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contractors use off-shore finance to fund the project.
Although they have always been a feature of the American economic landscape, there has been a sharp increase in the prevalence of contingent working arrangements over the past decade, and it is too early to tell how much of this acceleration is a cyclical phenomenon associated with the Great Recession or reflects a structural trend.