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González, Felipe
, Miquel-Florensa, Josepa, Prem, Mounu and Straub, Stéphane
(2025)
The Dark Side of Infrastructure: Roads, Repression, and Land in Authoritarian Paraguay.
The Economic Journal, vol. 135 (n° 666).
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Abstract
Transportation infrastructure is associated with economic development, but it can also be used for social control and to benefit the governing elite. We explore the connection between the construction of road networks, state-led repression, and illegal land allocations in the longest dictatorship in South America: Alfredo Stroessner’s military regime in Paraguay. Using novel panel data from the truth and reconciliation commission, we show that proximity to newly constructed roads facilitated state-led repression, illegal allocation of agricultural plots to dictatorship allies, and hindered sustainable economic development in the following decades.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Language: | English |
| Date: | February 2025 |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford |
| JEL Classification: | H54 - Infrastructures; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock N46 - Latin America; Caribbean N76 - Latin America; Caribbean O18 - Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses |
| Subjects: | B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE |
| Divisions: | TSE-R (Toulouse) |
| Site: | UT1 |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Jan 2025 08:57 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Jan 2025 08:57 |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:tse-fr.eu:129815 |
| URI: | https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/49765 |
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The dark side of infrastructure: roads, repression, and land in authoritarian Paraguay. (deposited 29 Jun 2023 14:42)
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