Widespread indexation mechanisms, particularly for wages, public utilities, and mortgage-interest rates, blurred most income-redistribution effects generally associated with inflation.
The favoured type of development has been of a very specific kind: encouraging corporate growth while decentralising government function, and deprioritising public utilities such as water and sanitation.
They also include the building of hydropower stations, coal mines, gas and oil transmission tube lines as well as public utilities projects in western regions.
After several public meetings, it was apparent that sanitation problems were further complicated by disunited communities, vandalism of public utilities, and lack of public ownership.
