Feeble infrastructure, a legacy of the Soviet era, meant that the political class began with a clean sheet.
Above all, Ying has an apocalyptic imagination; he shows the catastrophic results when natural phenomena overwhelm a feeble infrastructure built by a government that's unaccountable to the citizenry.
Foreign investment has been paltry, which is not surprising considering Syria's stone-age banking system and feeble infrastructure.So long as the conviction remains that economic and political reform can be uncoupled, the economy will continue to be handicapped by pervasive cronyism, stifling bureaucracy and inept management.
The billions raised can be invested in education to realise the potential of the next generation – to modernise our NHS so it can meet the needs of an ageing population; to upgrade Britain's feeble infrastructure; and to build the housing the country desperately needs.
As head of state, it can feel perilous to choose between addressing issues as acute as massive unemployment, health crises, social unrest, feeble infrastructure and rampant corruption.
After examining weak spending on the national electricity grid, flat car production, erratic appliance production, feeble infrastructure but firm construction spending the bank said a copper consumption growth rate of 4% was more likely.
Already feeble infrastructure was smashed and about 400,000 people — nearly a quarter of the territory's population — were displaced by fighting.
That is one reason why productivity is feeble, though Brazil's woeful education system and decrepit infrastructure are also to blame.
Vinamotor, a state-run maker of cars (among other things) is building a bus factory in the Dominican Republic and two lorry factories and an asphalt works in Venezuela, but as yet Vietnam is not a mass producer of cars.A mountain still to climbPrivate firms are bounding ahead despite bureaucracy, corruption, poor regulation, a feeble legal system and a creaking infrastructure.
