Milder weather helped the UK's transport network get back to normal on Thursday, after a day of delays and cancellations on railways and at airports.
They included reduced unemployment benefits, civil-service pay cuts, making Spaniards retire later and the privatisation of railways, ports and airports.
In India, however, infrastructure remains remarkably backward, with terrible roads, rickety railways and Third World airports.
If you are China, and you are about to buy the railways, motorways, ports and airports, why buy them in euros only to face instant asset price devaluation?
Clogged ports and airports and poor road and railways connections meant that the region's opening to foreign trade in the 1980s and 1990s brought less benefit than it should have done.
Critical infrastructure such as bridges, railways, airports, and power grids become primary targets, there is looting and destruction of company assets all of which is accompanied by a run on banks. for rival factions.
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This time, with airports, railways and utilities being targeted by the anti-government protesters, the economic risks may be greater.
There is a widespread belief that China has found a secret recipe for growth which basically involves building lots of stuff - infrastructure, railways, airports, roads and the like.
However, the PAC did say that it supported the need for more infrastructure spending, saying that investment in energy generation, roads, railways, airports, ports and communication systems was "crucial for stimulating economic growth".
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For all the improvements of recent years, the road network remains dreadful, the railways overloaded, seaports clogged, airports struggling to cope with the huge increase in flights and electricity and water supplies in many places shockingly unreliable.
One of the reasons infrastructure investment by British pension funds is relatively low, compared with (for example) infrastructure investment by Canadian pension funds, is that the UK's pension fund industry is fragmented: there aren't that many huge pension funds with the resources and appetite to make big long-term investments in new roads, or railways or airports.
Next year, work will also take place at a number of airports across Poland, to deal with the influx of football visitors, and roads and railways are also being improved.
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