Athif Shakoor's analysis of Maldives' presidential elections to be held tomorrow

...Bridges, hospitals, international airports and ready-to-occupy housing units on land yet to be reclaimed, are all being materialized out of thin air. Long-term leases on all social housing units, traffic violations stretching 5 years and more are all disappearing from existence with such ease that David Copperfield himself would write with envy.

While readers’ here in Sri Lanka are fully cognizant of the torturous process of debt restructuring, even after the country had literally run out of options, Maldivian candidates and their acolytes make the term ‘restructure’ sound casual- an evening stroll after crumpet and tea. READ HIS FULL ARTICLE FROM SRI LANKA'S THE DAILY FT