Across several African countries, there has been a troubling trend of infrastructure being stripped to sell as scrap metal. People have been arrested for ripping out and selling rail sleepers in South Africa and Ghana, pylon and copper wires in Uganda, and streetlamp meters in Liberia. That stripping feels like wanton destruction in countries that so badly need infrastructure, but without jobs or economic opportunities, it is one of the few options available to many poor people. Infrastructure stripping is a particularly stark example of a widespread pattern: that failure to invest in human capital has hamstrung the effectiveness of infrastructure initiatives to deliver jobs and growth.
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