With GDP growth reaching 8% last year and with the government increasingly handing over infrastructure projects to the private sector, the Bukaka boss can expect plenty of busy years ahead.

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But, as he might be discovering, just as in private sector companies an unmanaged bureaucracy eventually will bite its boss.

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RAI, with being boss of most of Italy's private-sector television too.

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