Sentences with phrase «on white elephant projects»

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These effects are significantly larger during periods of slow growth and in countries with high public investment efficiency, which is critical to ensure that resources are not squandered on «white elephant» projects.

My roommate and I threw our third annual Galentine's party — i.e. waffle bar + fondue extravaganza with a white elephant gift exchange (I got and am so excited to read this) and then I spent my actual V - day holed up in my room working on a bunch of finals projects and cleaning the heck out of my room.

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.

The President lauded Governor Lalong for continuing with the projects abandoned by previous administrations, noting that this has saved the state from white elephant projects and assured that the federal Government will speed up refunds on Federal works executed by the state.

«Making reference to projects like «the multibillion naira Opon Imo, a contract that was allegedly awarded to or co-ordinated by the governor's son, N20.9 billion garment factory, RLG factory, white elephant Osun Airport that has gulped billions of Osun people's money, it is unfathomable how Aregbesola is able to sleep in the night knowing full well that his government is running on deceit.

Labour will use that money to spend more on bureaucrats who will regulate you, and on state projects which are nothing but expensive and wasteful white elephants».

Going after China on the facts would be like attacking their ideal society, a repressed, corrupt, draconian, fake, hollow, even deeper in debt, and addicted to creating an endless parade of major white elephant projects, and environmental destruction on an epic scale, where they send an invoice to a familly for the cost of the bullet they use to execute your protesting relatives.