The G20’s infrastructure agenda
Undemocratic, elitist and unstable

by Nicholas Hildyard

first published 27 August 2016

This short blog, drawn from Licensed Larceny, highlights the financial guarantees underpinning today's boom in infrastructure spending. It was written for the Manchester University Press website just before the leaders of the world’s 20 largest economies – the so-called G-20 – met in Hangzhou, China in September 2016.