Infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean: Recent Developments and Key Challenges

Mary Morrison and Marianne Fay ()

No 7179 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: This book reviews Latin America's experience with infrastructure reform over the last fifteen years. It argues that the region's infrastructure has suffered from public retrenchment and unrealistic expectations about private involvement. Poor infrastructure now hampers productivity, growth, and poverty reduction. Addressing this requires more and better spending, and acceptance that governments remain central to infrastructure provision and supervision, although the private sector still has an important role to play.

Keywords: Finance; and; Financial; Sector; Development-Non; Bank; Financial; Institutions; Banks; and; Banking; Reform; Transport; Economics; Policy; and; Planning; Infrastructure; Economics; and; Finance-Infrastructure; Economics; Public; Sector; Economics; and; Finance; Transport; Public; Sector; Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8213-6676-9
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (25)

Downloads: (external link)
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstreams/cc3 ... 95d4157ef17/download (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wbk:wbpubs:7179

Access Statistics for this book

More books in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group 1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20433. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tal Ayalon ().