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Transportation is an inherently crucial factor in supporting economic activities as well as providing opportunities for economic development. As such, the provision of transport infrastructures is a common priority in capital investment, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean where...
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The Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure for South America (IIRSA) is a multilateral effort to spur investment in infrastructure and physical integration of the continent. This document includes information sheets on 31 priority IIRSA projects.
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This paper (IFM-115) evaluates a set of contractual adjustments, renegotiations and disputes that have taken place in different public utility industries in Argentina since 1991, considering: 1) Whether the decisions analyzed are inside the initial contract or represent a modification of it; 2)...
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Our knowledge of the trade effects of domestic infrastructure is very limited. The reason is twofold. First, data needed to examine these effects are not readily available. Second, identifying such effects requires properly addressing potential endogeneity problems affecting the relationship...
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This approach paper defines the scope and content of the Paraguay country program evaluation (CPE) for the period 2009-2013. This is the third time the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) has provided an independent look at the Bank¿s program with Paraguay. The current evaluation covers...
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This paper develops a port productivity and efficiency analysis of all developing regions between 2000 and 2010, using both parametric and nonparametric approaches. From a unique dataset -our sample covers 70 developing countries, 203 ports, and 1,750 data points-, we carry out an analysis of...
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(national roads and rails, highway, airports concessions) in the field of infrastructure financing. All the actors are trying to …
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, PPP, price cap, etc.), the paper is structured by modes. For each infrastructure type (national roads, highways, railways … implications. National roads and railways are financed by general budget on the basis of a planning activity usually carried by the …, ports and airports), the most common funding practices are commented, underlining their characteristics, limits and …
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enlarging intra-regional trade is the better connectivity of infrastructure such as roads, ports, airports, and rail links …
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