Bjørn Lomborg

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And obviously, you know, roads are much, much more expensive.

It's mostly infrastructure stuff.

Hugely corrupt.

For instance, in Bangladesh, it would already have been decided among the ruling elite in that local area who's going to get this.

So they'll have this bidding competition where you have to hand in an envelope, a sealed envelope with your bid on it.

but you put a goon outside the office.

So you literally physically can't get in with your bid.

Now, what we found, and I'm not claiming any sort of ownership to this.

A lot of smart people have done this way before.

We're just simply proving that it's a good idea.

It turns out that if you put this on eBay, essentially, so if you do an e-procurement system,

where bidders can come in, suddenly it becomes harder to put up the goon.

You can still do it, but it's harder to do it.

It also means you get bids from all over Bangladesh.

And in general, you'll get bids from all over.

Actually, it turns out you get better quality.

But most important is you get it much cheaper.

So basically, you can simply save money.

So we did a scaled experiment in Bangladesh where we had about 4% go to be e-procurement.

And you could compare what it would have cost and then what it did cost.

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