Infrastructure in Latin America : An Update, 1980-2006

This paper documents the trends in infrastructure in major Latin American economies over the last quarter century. Drawing from an expanded and updated data set, the paper sheds light on the region's infrastructure performance along four major...

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Main Authors: Calderón, César, Servén, Luis
Format: Other Infrastructure Study
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
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spelling okr-10986-31822021-04-23T14:02:07Z Infrastructure in Latin America : An Update, 1980-2006 Calderón, César Servén, Luis ACCESS TO SAFE WATER ACCESSIBILITY ACCOUNTING AIRPORTS CAPITAL FLOWS CASH FLOW DEFICITS DEPRECIATION DISTRIBUTION LOSSES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS ELECTRIC POWER ELECTRICITY ELECTRICITY GENERATION ELECTRICITY INFRASTRUCTURE EXCESS DEMAND EXPANSION FIRMS FISCAL POLICIES FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT GENERATION GENERATION CAPACITY GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT HOUSEHOLD CONNECTION INFRASTRUCTURE ASSETS INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT INFRASTRUCTURE PERFORMANCE INFRASTRUCTURE REFORM INFRASTRUCTURE SECTOR INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES INTERNATIONAL ENERGY INTERNATIONAL ROAD FEDERATION INVESTMENT CLIMATE INVESTMENT IN ROADS LAND TRANSPORT LENGTH OF ROAD LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LOCAL TELEPHONE MOBILITY MUNICIPALITIES POPULATION DENSITY POPULATION WITH ACCESS POWER POWER SECTOR POWER THEFT PRIVATE INFRASTRUCTURE PRIVATE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT PRIVATE INVESTMENT PRIVATE INVESTMENT IN INFRASTRUCTURE PRIVATE SECTOR PRIVATE SECTOR INVOLVEMENT PRIVATIZATION PUBLIC PUBLIC ENTERPRISES PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE PUBLIC INVESTMENT PUBLIC INVESTMENT IN INFRASTRUCTURE PUBLIC INVESTMENTS PUBLIC SECTOR PUBLIC WORKS RAILROADS RAILWAYS ROAD ROAD NETWORK ROAD QUALITY ROADS RURAL TRANSPORT SANITATION SANITATION FACILITIES STATE OWNED ENTERPRISES STOCKS SURFACE TRANSPORT TAX TELECOMMUNICATIONS TRAILS TRANSPORT TRANSPORTATION WATER SERVICES This paper documents the trends in infrastructure in major Latin American economies over the last quarter century. Drawing from an expanded and updated data set, the paper sheds light on the region's infrastructure performance along four major dimensions. First, the paper documents the trends in the quantity of Latin America's infrastructure assets, using a comparative cross-regional perspective. Second, the paper presents a battery of indicators of the quality of infrastructure services, taking the same comparative perspective. Third, the paper reviews Latin America's performance in terms of the universality of access to infrastructure services. Lastly, the paper offers a detailed account of the trends in infrastructure investment in Latin America's six major economies since 1980, disaggregated by both sector of origin (public and private) and destination (power, transport and telecommunications). 2012-03-19T17:26:19Z 2012-03-19T17:26:19Z 2009-05-29 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000333037_20100413235103 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3182 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Economic & Sector Work :: Other Infrastructure Study Latin America & Caribbean Latin America
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topic ACCESS TO SAFE WATER
ACCESSIBILITY
ACCOUNTING
AIRPORTS
CAPITAL FLOWS
CASH FLOW
DEFICITS
DEPRECIATION
DISTRIBUTION LOSSES
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMICS
ELECTRIC POWER
ELECTRICITY
ELECTRICITY GENERATION
ELECTRICITY INFRASTRUCTURE
EXCESS DEMAND
EXPANSION
FIRMS
FISCAL POLICIES
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
GENERATION
GENERATION CAPACITY
GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT
HOUSEHOLD CONNECTION
INFRASTRUCTURE ASSETS
INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT
INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT
INFRASTRUCTURE PERFORMANCE
INFRASTRUCTURE REFORM
INFRASTRUCTURE SECTOR
INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES
INTERNATIONAL ENERGY
INTERNATIONAL ROAD FEDERATION
INVESTMENT CLIMATE
INVESTMENT IN ROADS
LAND TRANSPORT
LENGTH OF ROAD
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
LOCAL TELEPHONE
MOBILITY
MUNICIPALITIES
POPULATION DENSITY
POPULATION WITH ACCESS
POWER
POWER SECTOR
POWER THEFT
PRIVATE INFRASTRUCTURE
PRIVATE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT
PRIVATE INVESTMENT
PRIVATE INVESTMENT IN INFRASTRUCTURE
PRIVATE SECTOR
PRIVATE SECTOR INVOLVEMENT
PRIVATIZATION
PUBLIC
PUBLIC ENTERPRISES
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW
PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE
PUBLIC INVESTMENT
PUBLIC INVESTMENT IN INFRASTRUCTURE
PUBLIC INVESTMENTS
PUBLIC SECTOR
PUBLIC WORKS
RAILROADS
RAILWAYS
ROAD
ROAD NETWORK
ROAD QUALITY
ROADS
RURAL TRANSPORT
SANITATION
SANITATION FACILITIES
STATE OWNED ENTERPRISES
STOCKS
SURFACE TRANSPORT
TAX
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
TRAILS
TRANSPORT
TRANSPORTATION
WATER SERVICES
spellingShingle ACCESS TO SAFE WATER
ACCESSIBILITY
ACCOUNTING
AIRPORTS
CAPITAL FLOWS
CASH FLOW
DEFICITS
DEPRECIATION
DISTRIBUTION LOSSES
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMICS
ELECTRIC POWER
ELECTRICITY
ELECTRICITY GENERATION
ELECTRICITY INFRASTRUCTURE
EXCESS DEMAND
EXPANSION
FIRMS
FISCAL POLICIES
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
GENERATION
GENERATION CAPACITY
GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT
HOUSEHOLD CONNECTION
INFRASTRUCTURE ASSETS
INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT
INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT
INFRASTRUCTURE PERFORMANCE
INFRASTRUCTURE REFORM
INFRASTRUCTURE SECTOR
INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES
INTERNATIONAL ENERGY
INTERNATIONAL ROAD FEDERATION
INVESTMENT CLIMATE
INVESTMENT IN ROADS
LAND TRANSPORT
LENGTH OF ROAD
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
LOCAL TELEPHONE
MOBILITY
MUNICIPALITIES
POPULATION DENSITY
POPULATION WITH ACCESS
POWER
POWER SECTOR
POWER THEFT
PRIVATE INFRASTRUCTURE
PRIVATE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT
PRIVATE INVESTMENT
PRIVATE INVESTMENT IN INFRASTRUCTURE
PRIVATE SECTOR
PRIVATE SECTOR INVOLVEMENT
PRIVATIZATION
PUBLIC
PUBLIC ENTERPRISES
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW
PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE
PUBLIC INVESTMENT
PUBLIC INVESTMENT IN INFRASTRUCTURE
PUBLIC INVESTMENTS
PUBLIC SECTOR
PUBLIC WORKS
RAILROADS
RAILWAYS
ROAD
ROAD NETWORK
ROAD QUALITY
ROADS
RURAL TRANSPORT
SANITATION
SANITATION FACILITIES
STATE OWNED ENTERPRISES
STOCKS
SURFACE TRANSPORT
TAX
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
TRAILS
TRANSPORT
TRANSPORTATION
WATER SERVICES
Calderón, César
Servén, Luis
Infrastructure in Latin America : An Update, 1980-2006
geographic_facet Latin America & Caribbean
Latin America
description This paper documents the trends in infrastructure in major Latin American economies over the last quarter century. Drawing from an expanded and updated data set, the paper sheds light on the region's infrastructure performance along four major dimensions. First, the paper documents the trends in the quantity of Latin America's infrastructure assets, using a comparative cross-regional perspective. Second, the paper presents a battery of indicators of the quality of infrastructure services, taking the same comparative perspective. Third, the paper reviews Latin America's performance in terms of the universality of access to infrastructure services. Lastly, the paper offers a detailed account of the trends in infrastructure investment in Latin America's six major economies since 1980, disaggregated by both sector of origin (public and private) and destination (power, transport and telecommunications).
format Economic & Sector Work :: Other Infrastructure Study
author Calderón, César
Servén, Luis
author_facet Calderón, César
Servén, Luis
author_sort Calderón, César
title Infrastructure in Latin America : An Update, 1980-2006
title_short Infrastructure in Latin America : An Update, 1980-2006
title_full Infrastructure in Latin America : An Update, 1980-2006
title_fullStr Infrastructure in Latin America : An Update, 1980-2006
title_full_unstemmed Infrastructure in Latin America : An Update, 1980-2006
title_sort infrastructure in latin america : an update, 1980-2006
publisher Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate 2012
url http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000333037_20100413235103
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3182
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