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Power outages are so common in Mindanao, the Philippines second-largest island, that consumers, frustrated at paying some of the highest electricity prices in the region, have taken to social media to dub the country’s energy secretary the ‘secretary of darkness’.
For an economy anointed by many as having southeast Asia’s best growth prospects, it is a vivid reminder of the correlation between quality of infrastructure and economic prosperity. Infrastructure matters, and the problems are not confined to the Philippines.
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