In short, the episode is sad commentary on a nation whose mix of races, its fine infrastructure and wealth of resources has held such promise.
"Poorer countries must let go of the idea that financial infrastructure and wealth can be built up when the countries remain closed off to the rest of the world," he writes.
The popular claim is that King Idris united the Libyans and brought infrastructure and wealth to the country, though the GNP was significantly lower during his rule than under Gaddafi.
Shareholder free enterprise is the enabler of new infrastructure and content wealth rather than the enemy.
Healthy populations tend to have better governance, better physical infrastructure, and greater wealth.
Within this framework structural factors (which include physical infrastructure and the wealth of a society, through to the political and policy environment) can be seen to create a continuum of effects which may enhance or diminish the health of populations.
There is no one Brazil or India, and infrastructure is still lacking and wealth is unbalanced, but it's still a big, exciting opportunity".
Just as he did on the first day of the crisis when he happened to be in Miami (that mid-September morning, the Senator had watched his investment in Goldman Sachs lose a quarter of its value), Senator Corzine suggested that $50 billion or more (perhaps out of the rescue package) be focused on building infrastructure and creating jobs and wealth.
New York is an example of a metropolis with the infrastructure, the wealth and the political will to deal with the effects of a changing climate.
Syria's national wealth, infrastructure and institutions have been "almost obliterated" by the "catastrophic impact" of nearly five years of conflict, a new report has found.
Apart from a selection of historical tourist attractions, Seoul really did go up in the past 60 years, its country having had to build up more or less all of its wealth, infrastructure and population after the Korean War, which destroyed or depleted all three.
