The Impact of Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure: Lights, Shadows, and the Road Ahead

Vivien Foster, José Luis Guasch, Luis Andres and Thomas Haven

No 358 in IDB Publications (Books) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: Infrastructure plays a key role in fostering growth and productivity and has been linked to improved earnings, health, and education levels for the poor. Yet Latin America and the Caribbean are currently faced with a dangerous combination of relatively low public and private infrastructure investment. Those investment levels must increase, and it can be done. If Latin American and Caribbean governments are to increase infrastructure investment in politically feasible ways, it is critical that they learn from experience and have an accurate idea of future impacts. This book contributes to this aim by producing what is arguably the most comprehensive privatization impact analysis in the region to date, drawing on an extremely comprehensive dataset. This publication belongs to the Latin American Development Forum Series (LADF), sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, and the World Bank.

Keywords: Latin American Development Forum; LADF; privatization; public utilities; labor productivity; regulatory framework (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
ISBN: 9780821374092
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