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...Housebuilders only build when they think they can sell homes and make a decent return....
...Another favourite ruse was to deliver coal that had already been discarded as unusable, steal the good coal, and sell that abroad for a profit....
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...To sell off what would never be built today suggests they are run for the benefit of developers....
...A month later, Grant Thornton US agreed to sell a 60 per cent stake to New Mountain Capital....
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...It entered the DRC’s mining sector as it was opening up to the private sector when former President Joseph Kabila came into office....
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