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Indonesia's Infrastructure Ambitions

Geoff Riley

2nd March 2016

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The Economist reports here on ambitious plans to overhaul the Indonesia's backward infrastructure - inefficiencies hamper growth prospects. This news video is an excellent contextual example of the importance of infrastructure to a country's competitiveness. Many of Indonesia's ports at the moment cannot handle container ships - containerisation of course has become synonymous with globalisation

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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