How to think about infrastructure in India and China

Overview

China has invested heavily in infrastructure in the last decade but India has lagged far behind – in large part because of, first, the lack of an enabling policy framework and, second, political opposition. That is changing, however, as regulatory reform takes hold, transforming India’s relative backwardness into an investment opportunity as it embarks on a US$495 billion infrastructure-building campaign.

Although China still has significant infrastructure needs, much of this work...