It ain’t over ’til the fat lady sings - BusinessWorld Online

It ain’t over ’til the fat lady sings - BusinessWorld Online

For years now, we have written — perhaps too often — about the extraordinary plunder of public money involving politicians, public works engineers and officials, and their collaborating private contractors. What distinguishes the current moment is not the novelty of corruption but its scale, persistence and institutional embeddedness. The evidence has become both abundant and disturbingly familiar: ghost projects, substandard construction, unfin…