Hiding between luxury hotels around the Kazanchis area, the delayed construction of a swimming pool collects rainwater. The little over 20,000 registered contractors in the country have been battered by runaway inflation of inputs. As cement factories in the country produce less than half the national demand which hovers at 36 million quintals, the skyline of the capital has a greyish haze from the incomplete sites. Despite employing nearly two million people and accounting for nearly a fifth of the nation's GDP, the construction sector remains handicapped by inflation and access to credit.
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