What a Railway in Kenya Reveals About How China Builds Things in Africa
The China in Africa Podcast
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The Legacy of the Kenyan Standard Gauge Railway
Gereminis Lesothis, Huang Zhongdie and Dung Lee talk about Kenya's standard gauge railway. They say the project has been transformative for better and for worse. But they argue that it was a mistake to spend so much money on infrastructure instead of human development initiatives. Geddes: "It enhances and further exaggerates pre-existing social and economic inequalities"
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