Many Latin American governments have underinvested in infrastructure. Alejandro Foxley says government infrastructure expenditure accounts for less than 2 percent of the gross domestic product. That is not even half of what East Asia spends on infrastructure, which is about 7 percent of GDP, according to the Chilean foreign affairs minister.
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