According to the speaker, the area of greatest expenditure of investment funds occurred in ______.

Investment in the public sector, such as electricity, irrigation, quarrying, public services and transport increased by about 10%, although the emphasis moved to transport and away from the other sectors mentioned. Trade and services recorded a 16- 17% investment growth, including a 30% increase in investment in business premises. Industrial investment is estimated to have risen by 8%.

Today in the techno-society there is an almost ironclad consensus about the future of freedom. Maximum individual choice is regarded as the democratic ideal. Yet most writers predict that we shall move further and further from this ideal. They conjured up a dark vision of the future, in which people appear as mindless consumer creatures, surrounded by standardized goods, educated in standardized schools, fed a diet of standardized mass culture, and forced to adopt standardized styles of life. Such predictions have spawned a generation of future haters and technophobes, as one might expect.