On the ground, construction continues at government-funded projects, by private sector companies and at unauthorised outposts, the groups say.

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The proof is in the pudding on this point: every dollar of public-sector funds received by these projects was being matched by nearly four dollars in private-sector investment toward buying and installing the systems that generate on-site electricity and use waste-heat created during generation.

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If government can take an axe to bureaucracy and offer tax breaks for capital formation projects led by the private sector then slowly, we can can get past economic lags and see unemployment come down.

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