No one knows the value of a road until they are broken. When I was a young “volunteer” in rural Laos in1968, my mandate was “Teach them how to grow two crops of rice instead of one”. I soon learned that growing the rice was the easy part. What to do with it after you’d grown it was the real problem. You can only eat so much rice. 

Roads are step one. Step two, “Market Access” is more difficult. Rice is consumed all over the world. That’s why free trade is so important! I’m ready for step two.