The massive demand for housing around India's cities and pervasivecorruption often result in builders adding unauthorized floors or putting up illegal buildings.
Yet the really important changes, the ones that will modernise Mexico's institutions, reduce its inequalities and social problems, and neutralise its pervasivecorruption, will take a long time to bring about.
Leaving aside such disincentives as pervasivecorruption, maddening bureaucracy and organised crime, there is the question whether the government's plans for the labour market will do enough to stimulate the growth Italy has so woefully failed to generate.
Critics of the government say that recent scandals point to a pervasive culture of corruption in Mr Singh's administration - adding to the difficulties of a politician once seen as India's most honest.