Tag: railway
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Start with the paper trail, because the paper trail doesn’t care about your politics. The people who owned plantations in Jamaica and the people who financed railways in Lancashire were often not two different groups. They were the same families, keeping two sets of books, moving capital from one to the other as the political…
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The ports were the map. The rails are the mechanism. A port without a rail line is a door without a corridor, and an SEZ without a rail connection is a warehouse with a customs form. The reason the African corridor story has moved from aspiration to finance is not that the ports suddenly appeared.…