Ten years ago, what began as a dream of the Chinese Government has evolved across various parts of the world into a key catalyst for job creation and poverty eradication, resulting in economic growth and development. As the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a China-proposed initiative to boost connectivity along and beyond the ancient Silk Road routes, celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, it has made a global impression as a vast and ambitious infrastructure development project whose main objective is to connect Africa, Asia, Europe and other regions via a network of roads, railways, ports and other key infrastructural developments.
At the inception
