In recent years, a building boom(建设热潮) has reshaped(重塑) Benin’s largest city, Cotonou, and a shiny new coastal road has reduced journey times(行程时间) to Ouidah, the west African country’s spiritual(精神的) and cultural capital.
近年来，一股建设热潮重塑了贝宁最大城市科托努的面貌，一条崭新的沿海公路缩短了前往维达的行程时间。维达是这个西非国家的精神与文化之都。
In the last decade, Benin’s annual GDP(国内生产总值) has grown from 3% to 6%, a regional high(地区最高水平), and an industrial zone has been launched north-west of Cotonou to help industrialise(工业化) the relatively small nation’s largely informal economy(非正规经济).
过去十年间，贝宁的年GDP增长率从3%升至6%，位居地区前列。科托努西北部还启动了一个工业区，以帮助这个相对较小的国家实现工业化——其经济主要依赖非正规部门。
“Benin is now looking like a paradise(天堂),” said Savossou Stanislas, a 40-year-old tyre repairer(轮胎修理工) in the official capital, Porto-Novo(贝宁官方首都).
“贝宁现在看起来就像天堂，”40岁的轮胎修理工萨沃苏·斯坦尼斯拉斯在官方首都波多诺伏说道。
The Kagame model
卡加梅模式
What price progress?
进步的代价是什么？