[ketzo]

Yeah, but that's technical knowledge, not project-management knowledge.

The article argues that the real gap is not in people who know how to build things, but in dedicated civil servants who know how to manage those people.

And that is a much more transferrable skill than "how to build this kind of rail tunnel through that kind of soil composition" or whatever.

[abduhl]

Just saying “that is a much more transferable skill” does not make it so. Effective management on any infrastructure job is, again, highly dependent on relationships with local agencies and the local population.