Its infrastructure systems might be adequate to support the country’s tepid 3-4% growth rates, but they are hardly adequate to support the 6-7% rates that it ought to be enjoying amidst the current global boom. Russia, despite Siberia’s massive oil and gas riches, isn’t even investing enough to support healthy growth in its energy industries, much less human development in the country’s impoverished areas (including hapless Siberia).
甚至美国的某些基础设施也在被忽视状态中步履蹒跚：摇摇欲坠的桥梁和不堪负荷的电网。土地广袤的巴西也是研究投资不足的后果的案例。它的基础设施体系可能足以支持其3-4%的温和经济增长率，但对于其在目前的全球性经济繁荣的大环境下能达到的6-7%的增速则爱莫能助。俄罗斯尽管有着西伯利亚的巨大石油和天然气储量，却连支撑其能源工业健康发展的投资水平也保证不了，更别说在该国贫困地区（包括不幸的西伯利亚）的人力资源发展上的投资了。