In present-day Iraq, the answer is, not much, for where Mr Hussein stands out is in the scale and single-mindedness of his building campaign.

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An average of nearly 1 million people will be entering the work force every single month for the next 20 years, a scale unprecedented in human history.

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They frequently depend on venture-capital funds which are dwarfed by the cost of even a single utility-scale power plant.

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