[vezycash]

In Nigeria and Ghana, important projects are left undone by the ruling parties because they are long term projects.

Because, the opposing party would be the ones to reap the rewards, and praise from the populace.

They'd instead focus on building new roads instead of maintaining existing ones, building new schools instead of improving existing ones, starting new high sounding schemes instead of continuing projects the previous regime begun.

And btw plants convert CO2 to O2.

[BurningFrog]

That's how government works everywhere, to some degree.

The planning horizon does not stretch further than the next election. For long term projects, private entities do much better.

[narrator]

What about China?

[clock_tower]

Or old-fasioned kingdoms and monarchies. A number of English kings underwrote the wool trade; in general, the smarter sort of king tended to take an interest in improving his country's manufacturing and agriculture.

[BurningFrog]

They do have different planning horizons.

The lack of accountability in a dictatorship might offset that. I have no way of evaluating that.