The public capital stock has been substantially run down with the total public capital programme (as a percentage of GNP) for the last fifteen years running at about half of the level of the 1970s and early 1980s. At the same time, following a period of sustained and unprecedented economic growth, the requirement for top-level public infrastructure has never been greater. Alleviation of the infrastructural deficit is, therefore, central to the maintenance of national economic well being, yet all the indicators point to problems in respect of the implementation of the National Development Plan 2000-2006 (NDP) and other non-NDP infrastructural development projects.
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