Colombia’s development bank has brought in private-sector discipline
Some of Latin America’s worst roads are getting an upgrade
IT COSTS more to send a 40-foot container by road from Bogotá, Colombia’s capital, to Buenaventura on its Pacific coast than to ship it on from Buenaventura to Shanghai. According to the World Economic Forum, Colombia’s roads are among the worst in Latin America. For more than 20 years governments have tried to improve matters, with little success. Now Colombia is trying again.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “The highway, my way”
Finance & economics September 15th 2018
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