Bureaucracy everywhere slows everything to a halt and pumps the costs of anything sky high. In developed West - through regulations and Kafkaesque process, in

Bureaucracy everywhere slows everything to a halt and pumps the costs of anything sky high. In developed West - through regulations and Kafkaesque process, in the rest of the world - through corruption. Pouring concrete and laying pipes is cheap and fast, it is everything else in the project that makes it costly and expensive.