"We expect to play a critical role in the nation's transportation infrastructure for years to come".
Namely the infrastructure was years away and it would likely only replace Europe's Asian gas supply.
Kyrgyzstan will quickly fade from the news, but it faces a profoundly difficult future, with its decaying Soviet-era infrastructure and years of state sponsored theft.
And if trains start rolling next year, as planned, and prove successful, the project may provide a template for private investment in public infrastructure for years to come.
Having underinvested in infrastructure for years, it's quite likely that, "for every $1 billion invested in transportation projects, 42,000 jobs are created, and...every dollar spent on infrastructure projects generates about $5.70 in economic activity", as the governors say.
In poor countries, land titles may give outsiders dubious protection if those countries even allow foreign ownership of land in the first place.Some liken the sector to real estate and infrastructure 20 years ago.
The country's technology infrastructure is years, maybe even a decade, behind the more developed countries in Northern Europe.
On the other hand, floods can severely damage road infrastructure in years with large floods and can cause high annual maintenance costs.
An ambitious economist, her tenure in office has focused on tackling corruption, rebuilding the country's infrastructure following years of civil strife and reducing the staggering unemployment rate.
Another plasma storm hit South Africa on Halloween 2003, knocking out 14 transformers and crippling that nation's electrical infrastructure for years.
