evidence: - Mobilize resources toward high-priority areas. Using the assessment, mobilize U.S. public and private sector resources into those key infrastructure types and geographic areas, in close coordination with U.S. partners and allies. Public funds should be used as a force-multiplier, crowding in rather than crowding out private investment. Without alternatives for meeting pressing infrastructure needs, countries face the difficult and often politically impossible choice between a lower-quality project or nothing at all. It is in the U.S. interest to work with partners and allies to make the effort to provide such an alternative both for the immediate commercial benefits it will provide and for the long-term economic and security benefits that will come from the kind of global economy that high-quality infrastructure will produce (i.e., a better market for U.S. goods and services and a more stable, developed, and peaceful world that does not threaten U.S. security or prosperity).