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Sources of Growth in Latin America: What Is Missing?

Blyde, Juan; Fernández-Arias, Eduardo; Gill, Indermit S.; … - Inter-American Development Bank

The country studies and their background papers included in this book were prepared for the Latin America and the Caribbean section of the "Global Research Project: Explaining Growth" of the Global Development Network (GDN), a research effort conducted in association with the Latin American and...

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Sources of Growth in Latin America: What Is Missing?

Fernández-Arias, Eduardo; Blyde, Juan S.; Gill, Indermit S. - Inter-American Development Bank

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Second-Generation Reforms in Infrastructure Services

Basañes, C. Federico; Artana, Daniel; Navajas, Fernando; … - Inter-American Development Bank

During the past two decades, Latin American countries have made pioneering efforts in reforming infrastructure services. The "first generation of reforms" encompassed widespread privatization, deregulation and restructuring of the provision of energy, water, transport and telecommunications...

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Second-Generation Reforms in Infrastructure Services

Basañes, C. Federico; Artana, Daniel; Navajas, Fernando; … - Inter-American Development Bank

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Unclogging the Arteries: The Impact of Transport Costs on Latin American and Caribbean Trade

Moreira, Mauricio Mesquita; Martincus, Christian Volpe; … - Inter-American Development Bank

The book explores the impact of transport costs on trade in Latin America and the Caribbean, and argues that transport costs have assumed an unprecedented strategic importance to the region. The region can no longer rely solely on trade agreements, proximity, labor costs and an abundant supply...

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Post-Privatization Renegotiation and Disputes in Chile

Basañes, C. Federico; Saavedra, Eduardo; Soto, Raimundo - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999

taken place in Chile since the late 1980s in the electricity sector. This sector was chosen because the privatization …. The paper also assesses how lessons learned in the reform of electricity were internalized in the design of the regulatory …

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Energy Matrix: USA, China, Europe, LAC, and the World

Espinasa, Ramón; Balza, Lenin; Sucre, Carlos - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

This presentation depicts and describes the energy matrices for the world, the United States, Europe, China and Latin America. It also provides comparative charts on energy consumption and intensity.

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Privatization, Institutional Reform, and Performance in the Latin American Electricity Sector

Balza, Lenin; Jiménez, Raúl Alberto; Díaz, Jorge … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

challenges related with low coverage in rural areas, significant levels of electricity losses and high end-user prices. The … electricity sector in 18 Latin American countries over the last four decades. As part of this study, an updated description of … electricity service. The results suggest that privatization is robustly associated with improvements in quality and efficiency …

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