Documentos e informes

Benchmarking container port technical efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean : a stochastic frontier analysis (Inglés)

This paper presents a technical efficiency analysis of container ports in Latin America and the Caribbean using an input-oriented stochastic frontier model. A 10-year panel is employed with data on container...

Airport economics in Latin America and the Caribbean : benchmarking, regulation, and pricing (Inglés)

This report presents the findings of a first-ever, comprehensive study of how Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region airports have evolved during a notable period of transition in airport ownership...

Argentina - AR Santa Fe Road Infrastructure : P099051 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 10 (Inglés)

Chile - Ministry of Public Works Institutional Strenghtening TAL : P102931 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 09 (Inglés)

Argentina - AR Santa Fe Road Infrastructure : P099051 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 09 (Inglés)

Chile - Ministry of Public Works Institutional Strenghtening TAL : P102931 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 08 (Inglés)

Making a small market thrive : recommendations for efficiency gains in the Latin American air cargo market (Inglés)

Air cargo origin destination flows in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region are heavily concentrated in the largest economies of South America and Mexico. With 32.7 percent of the airfreight...

Argentina - AR Santa Fe Road Infrastructure : P099051 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 08 (Inglés)

Chile - Ministry of Public Works Institutional Strenghtening TAL : P102931 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 07 (Inglés)

Measuring the technical efficiency of airports in Latin America (Inglés)

This paper studies the technical efficiency of airports in Latin America. The evolution of productive efficiency in the region has seldom been studied, mainly due to lack of publicly available data. Relying...

Public transport funding policy in Madrid : Is there room for improvement? (Inglés)

This report provides an analysis of urban transport funding and distributional issues in Madrid. It consolidates some of the key findings of the existing literature, and complements it with an additional...

Improving logistics costs for transportation and trade facilitation (Inglés)

Access to basic infrastructure services - roads, electricity, water, sanitation - and the efficient provision of the services, is a key challenge in the fight against poverty. Many of the poor (and particularly...

Affordability and subsidies in public urban transport : what do we mean, what can be done? (Inglés)

Subsidy policies on public urban transport have been adopted ubiquitously. In both developed and developing countries, subsidies are implemented to make transport more affordable. Despite their widespread...

Diffusion of the internet : a cross-country analysis (Inglés)

This paper analyzes the process of Internet diffusion across the world using a panel of 199 countries during 1990-2004. The authors group countries in two categories-low and high-income countries-and show...

Where do we stand on transport infrastructure deregulation and public-private partnership? (Inglés)

The evolution of transport public-private partnerships (PPPs) in developing and developed countries since the early 1990s seems to be following a similar path: private initiatives work for a while but...

Infrastructure, competition regimes, and air transport costs: cross-country evidence (Inglés)

The relevance of transport costs has increased as liberalization continues to reduce artificial barriers to trade. Countries need to adopt policies to get closer to global markets. Can improvements in...

What do we know about competition agencies in emerging and transition countries? Evidence on workload, personnel, priority sectors, and training needs (Inglés)

During 2003, the World Bank Institute sent a needs assessment questionnaire to 48 competition agencies in transition and emerging countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Responses were classified...

The role of advocacy in competition policy : the case of the Argentine gasoline market (Inglés)

In 2000 the Argentine antitrust authorities conducted a study of the state of competition in the gasoline market. The study concludes with a set of policy recommendations (that is, limits to vertical integration...

Market power : airports (Inglés)

In the late 1980s and the 1990s many countries privatized airports or concessioned their operation. The United Kingdom began the trend, followed by other countries adopting new forms of infrastructure...