Author:
Publisher: BID-INTAL
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
A New Push for Regional Infrastructure Development in South America
Author:
Publisher: BID-INTAL
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
Publisher: BID-INTAL
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
A New Push for Regional Infrastructure Development in South America
Author: Integration and Regional Programs Department Regional Operations Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Building regional infrastructure in Latin America (Working Paper IECI = Documento de Trabajo SITI ; n. 10)
Author: Vito Tanzi
Publisher: BID-INTAL
ISBN: 9507382119
Category : Infrastructure (Economics)
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Publisher: BID-INTAL
ISBN: 9507382119
Category : Infrastructure (Economics)
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Trade costs and the economic fundamentals of the initiative for integration of regional infrastructure in South America (IIRSA) (Working Paper ITD = Documento de Trabajo ITD; 30)
Author: Mauricio Mesquita Moreira
Publisher: BID-INTAL
ISBN: 9507382631
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Publisher: BID-INTAL
ISBN: 9507382631
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Beyond the City
Author: Felipe Correa
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477309411
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
During the last decade, the South American continent has seen a strong push for transnational integration, initiated by the former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who (with the endorsement of eleven other nations) spearheaded the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA), a comprehensive energy, transport, and communications network. The most aggressive transcontinental integration project ever planned for South America, the initiative systematically deploys ten east-west infrastructural corridors, enhancing economic development but raising important questions about the polarizing effect of pitting regional needs against the colossal processes of resource extraction. Providing much-needed historical contextualization to IIRSA’s agenda, Beyond the City ties together a series of spatial models and offers a survey of regional strategies in five case studies of often overlooked sites built outside the traditional South American urban constructs. Implementing the term “resource extraction urbanism,” the architect and urbanist Felipe Correa takes us from Brazil’s nineteenth-century regional capital city of Belo Horizonte to the experimental, circular, “temporary” city of Vila Piloto in Três Lagoas. In Chile, he surveys the mining town of María Elena. In Venezuela, he explores petrochemical encampments at Judibana and El Tablazo, as well as new industrial frontiers at Ciudad Guayana. The result is both a cautionary tale, bringing to light a history of societies that were “inscribed” and administered, and a perceptive examination of the agency of architecture and urban planning in shaping South American lives.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477309411
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
During the last decade, the South American continent has seen a strong push for transnational integration, initiated by the former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who (with the endorsement of eleven other nations) spearheaded the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA), a comprehensive energy, transport, and communications network. The most aggressive transcontinental integration project ever planned for South America, the initiative systematically deploys ten east-west infrastructural corridors, enhancing economic development but raising important questions about the polarizing effect of pitting regional needs against the colossal processes of resource extraction. Providing much-needed historical contextualization to IIRSA’s agenda, Beyond the City ties together a series of spatial models and offers a survey of regional strategies in five case studies of often overlooked sites built outside the traditional South American urban constructs. Implementing the term “resource extraction urbanism,” the architect and urbanist Felipe Correa takes us from Brazil’s nineteenth-century regional capital city of Belo Horizonte to the experimental, circular, “temporary” city of Vila Piloto in Três Lagoas. In Chile, he surveys the mining town of María Elena. In Venezuela, he explores petrochemical encampments at Judibana and El Tablazo, as well as new industrial frontiers at Ciudad Guayana. The result is both a cautionary tale, bringing to light a history of societies that were “inscribed” and administered, and a perceptive examination of the agency of architecture and urban planning in shaping South American lives.
Latin America
Author: Rector Press, Limited
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780760504192
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780760504192
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Beyond Borders: The New Regionalism in Latin America
Author: Inter-American Development Bank
Publisher: IDB
ISBN: 9781931003230
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Although regional integration initiatives have a long history in the world economy, these efforts have expanded significantly since the 1990s. In Latin America and the Caribbean, a wave of regional integration initiatives has included free trade areas, customs unions, and steps towards common markets. The emergence of this "new regionalism"of trade in which global and regional forces complement one another has been driven by such factors as the opening up of economies and structural reforms. This year's edition of Economic and Social Progress in Latin America explores the dimensions of integration, macroeconomic coordination, and the effects of regional integration on productivity, market access, foreign direct investment, infrastructure and income inequality. Topics include subregional integration schemes, the multilateral trade agenda launched in Doha, initiatives such as the Free Trade Area of the Americas, and interregional agreements with the European Union.
Publisher: IDB
ISBN: 9781931003230
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Although regional integration initiatives have a long history in the world economy, these efforts have expanded significantly since the 1990s. In Latin America and the Caribbean, a wave of regional integration initiatives has included free trade areas, customs unions, and steps towards common markets. The emergence of this "new regionalism"of trade in which global and regional forces complement one another has been driven by such factors as the opening up of economies and structural reforms. This year's edition of Economic and Social Progress in Latin America explores the dimensions of integration, macroeconomic coordination, and the effects of regional integration on productivity, market access, foreign direct investment, infrastructure and income inequality. Topics include subregional integration schemes, the multilateral trade agenda launched in Doha, initiatives such as the Free Trade Area of the Americas, and interregional agreements with the European Union.
The Growth Return of Infrastructure in Latin America
Author: Mr.Sergi Lanau
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1475578954
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
This paper examines the effects of improvements in infrastrucutre on sectoral growth and firm-level investment, focusing on six Latin American countries. Exploiting the heterogeneity in the quality of infrastructure across countries and the intrinsic variation in the dependence of sectors on infrastructure, I find that better infrastructure raises growth and investment. Improved infrastructure could yield large economic benefits. For example, if the quality of infrastructure in Colombia increased to the sample median (Czech Republic), GDP growth would increase by about 0.1 percentage points.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1475578954
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
This paper examines the effects of improvements in infrastrucutre on sectoral growth and firm-level investment, focusing on six Latin American countries. Exploiting the heterogeneity in the quality of infrastructure across countries and the intrinsic variation in the dependence of sectors on infrastructure, I find that better infrastructure raises growth and investment. Improved infrastructure could yield large economic benefits. For example, if the quality of infrastructure in Colombia increased to the sample median (Czech Republic), GDP growth would increase by about 0.1 percentage points.
Initiative for Infrastructure Integration in South America
Author: Andrea Gabriela Bonilla Bolaño
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
This paper studies how the public provision of transportation infrastructure impact output convergence and trade integration in a two-country dynamic general equilibrium model in which the transportation cost between countries is endogenously determined by the stock of public infrastructure in both countries. Because of its particular conception, the so-called "Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA)" serves as the case study. Data from Argentina and Brazil is thus used to solve the model. Two main results emerge. First, increasing public investment in infrastructure provides an impetus to commercial integration but does not necessarily generate output convergence. Second, the model shows that the only way for the two countries to achieve output convergence (in a win-win economic growth scenario) is to coordinate their increments on public infrastructure, as proposed by IIRSA.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
This paper studies how the public provision of transportation infrastructure impact output convergence and trade integration in a two-country dynamic general equilibrium model in which the transportation cost between countries is endogenously determined by the stock of public infrastructure in both countries. Because of its particular conception, the so-called "Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA)" serves as the case study. Data from Argentina and Brazil is thus used to solve the model. Two main results emerge. First, increasing public investment in infrastructure provides an impetus to commercial integration but does not necessarily generate output convergence. Second, the model shows that the only way for the two countries to achieve output convergence (in a win-win economic growth scenario) is to coordinate their increments on public infrastructure, as proposed by IIRSA.
Accounting for Poverty in Infrastructure Reform
Author: Antonio Estache
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821350393
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Annotation This book provides practical guidelines and options for infrastructure reform that result in access and affordability for the poor. It includes a new model for reform that consists of three main components - policies, regulation, and provision which when properly balanced minimize the risks associated with reform.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821350393
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Annotation This book provides practical guidelines and options for infrastructure reform that result in access and affordability for the poor. It includes a new model for reform that consists of three main components - policies, regulation, and provision which when properly balanced minimize the risks associated with reform.