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S3 Ep1: Democracy and infrastructure investment in Indonesia

VoxDev Development Economics

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Infrastructure - The Biggest Driver of Economic Development

There's two trillion dollars of global investment in infrastructure each year. The biggest thing that it captures is electricity, projects, and roads. It also captures other public goods like schools, hospitals, water infrastructure. But the issue here is just that these big infrastructure projects are often the targets of corruption in weak institution settings.

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