Transportation and Communication Infrastructure in Latin America: Lessons from Asia

Barbara Kotschwar

No WP12-6, Working Paper Series from Peterson Institute for International Economics

Abstract: In Latin America, inadequate transportation infrastructure has been identified as an increasingly important impediment to the region's further integration in global trade and a significant factor preventing countries from properly taking advantage of the multitude of regional, plurilateral, and bilateral trade agreements signed in the past decade and a half. This paper examines transport and communications infrastructure initiatives in Latin American and Asian regional trade arrangements and finds several lessons Asia can teach Latin America.

Keywords: trade; infrastructure; regional trade agreements (RTAs); transport costs; transport infrastructure; cooperation; East Asia; Latin America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 F15 O18 R11 R42 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-04
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