Abstract
Infrastructure can drive development, but history shows it can also be used for political control. Paraguay’s roads under Stroessner's dictatorship highlight this dual nature, providing valuable lessons for today’s policymakers.
Reference
Felipe Gonzalez, Josepa Miquel-Florensa, Mounu Prem, and Stéphane Straub, “How Paraguay’s dictator turned infrastructure into a tool for repression”, VoxDev, December 2024.
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VoxDev, December 2024