Executives raised myriad questions with management. From the outset, “we did a fair amount of warnings to make sure that the leadership, especially at the board level, were aware of these risks”, said the senior executive.
Where would the 9mn people due to populate The Line come from? How quickly could they be reasonably expected to arrive? Could construction and manufacturing start quickly enough? Would the levels of imports required overheat the economy? What if oil prices sank, drying up Saudi Arabia’s key source of revenue? What if…
