"We can prepare forty projects a year. The continent needs four hundred."
A project-preparation facility director on why the bottleneck is people, not money.
Editorial Desk · INFRA/CORE
InterviewAn extended conversation on transaction-advisory capacity, why local engineering firms are squeezed out of preparation mandates, and what a ten-fold scale-up would actually require.
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