The article says a tenth of the entire country's inbound trade and 15% of the entire government budget was spend buying "computer chips". And that this has "fueled a yawning trade deficit and tallied with a sharp drop in the country’s foreign currency reserves."
Maybe they'll get a good return on "the $193 million spent on computer chips" plus whatever they spent to build hydro power plants to tap that "more or less entirely unused" resource? How much would you bet against the only real money ever made here ending up in the pockets of pork barrelling politicians and bureaucrats getting kickbacks from the mining rig vendors and hydro dams/powerplant construction contractors?
The article says a tenth of the entire country's inbound trade and 15% of the entire government budget was spend buying "computer chips". And that this has "fueled a yawning trade deficit and tallied with a sharp drop in the country’s foreign currency reserves."
Maybe they'll get a good return on "the $193 million spent on computer chips" plus whatever they spent to build hydro power plants to tap that "more or less entirely unused" resource? How much would you bet against the only real money ever made here ending up in the pockets of pork barrelling politicians and bureaucrats getting kickbacks from the mining rig vendors and hydro dams/powerplant construction contractors?