Most governments and bureaucrats in pretty much any country have the potential to make daft decisions and waste money. It’s just that some countries have the ability to waste a lot more money. Witness the financial crises in most developed countries. It annoys me to see Qatar so serious about spending money on things like fancy hotels, when the Hamad Medical City, built in 2006, is still sitting empty 5 years later. I just can’t understand why it is more important to someone in the government to build hotels whether or not people stay in them, but there is no motivation to fit out a hospital to ease the overcrowding at the other Hamad hospitals.
Most governments and bureaucrats in pretty much any country have the potential to make daft decisions and waste money. It’s just that some countries have the ability to waste a lot more money. Witness the financial crises in most developed countries. It annoys me to see Qatar so serious about spending money on things like fancy hotels, when the Hamad Medical City, built in 2006, is still sitting empty 5 years later. I just can’t understand why it is more important to someone in the government to build hotels whether or not people stay in them, but there is no motivation to fit out a hospital to ease the overcrowding at the other Hamad hospitals.