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So, too, would an increase in public spending on real goods and services — such as a boost to green infrastructure investment, assuming sufficient shovel-ready projects are available — financed with a tax increase on the well-off.
Source: https://mg.co.za/opinion/2023-01-03-worlds-doom-and-gloom-financial-scenario-not-inevitable/
This means they have for all that period been “shovel-ready” to go into procurement.