Large infrastructure projects almost invariably go over budget.
The energy, transportation and other infrastructure projects have been advanced, injecting strong impetus into bilateral economic and technological cooperation.
Even as billions in mining profits pour into the capital, infrastructure projects remain underfunded and jobs hard to find.
With an influx of businessmen and other officials from China engaged in infrastructure projects such as road building and logging, the slaughter is expected to accelerate.
Despite this dip in fortunes, the country has barely paused for breath, relying on international lines of credit for infrastructure projects, with China to the fore.
As always, the inequity is that the huge infrastructure projects needed are paid for by existing customers, while future customers reap the benefits.
A spate of Western-funded infrastructure projects are reviving the old merchant elite, which Hamas’s new business class had sought to supplant.
