The authors go on to illustrate that the remaining 20 cents of loan monies are used to
finance white elephant projects, «ghost» projects» (i.e. fictitious roads, schools, soldiers, etc.), government salaries, ineffective development and infrastructural projects or it leaves the country through capital flight within the coming years — leaving little to nothing of actual development monies for the citizenry of these countries.
Besides inflating the largest real estate bubble in world history, this massive infusion of debt also
financed many
white elephant projects, such as useless infrastructure and excess steel, automobile, and cement factories.