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To: energyplay who wrote (35982)	6/23/2008 12:03:21 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217576

<<Any reason besides transport that the place has not developed more ?>> this was one facet of the discussion over the past 48 hours, and some ideas were: - isolation (roads, rail, communications) due to mountains and rivers (although military supplies used to make it through here from burma during world war, part two, and so lack of access to markets - lack of knowledge / trained folks of all sorts (managers to engineers) - lack of capital - lack of policy direction from national as well as local governments - lack of visitors (investors, tourists, immigrants) etc etc the place is on its way, imo, because the factors holding back progress are well recognized, the policy of experimentation is in place, and now, people and capital are starting to move real basics and nothing geewhizbangohwhoawee it was a joy to see the faces of the the students, sense their wonderful hope and engage with that elemental enthusiasm