In India, Subtle Corruption Robs Villagers of Roads (IMAGE)

Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

In India, Subtle Corruption Robs Villagers of Roads

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Examining a major road-building program in India, researchers at Princeton University and the Paris School of Economics used an innovative technique to show that political corruption increased the chances that roads meant to connect isolated areas to the rest of the country would never be built, even though the government had paid for them.

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Egan Jimenez, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

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