Format:
1 online resource (214 pages)
ISBN:
9780821362815
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0821362801
Content:
This book reviews the access to services, investment needs, tariffs, and efficiency of fifteen Caribbean countries across five infrastructure sectors (telecommunications, electricity, water and sanitation, maritime transport and ports, and airports and air services). Benchmarks are established to compare Caribbean countries with each other, and with similar countries. To some extent, differences in performance can be explained by unalterable factors such as a given country's size and location. However, we find that, in many cases, differences in performance among countries cannot be completely explained by such factors. Many of the remaining differences seem to be attributable to institutional and policy factors, such as the level of competition among service providers within a given sector, whether providers are government or privately-controlled, and the quality of regulatory and subsidy regimes. The study highlights several key policy findings and recommends changes that have the potential to help Caribbean governments overcome some of their inherent disadvantages of scale to provide better, cheaper infrastructure services.
Content:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1 Summary -- Levels of Services Vary Across Sectors and Countries -- Critical Investment Requirements -- Recommendations -- Summary -- 2 Institutions and Infrastructure -- What Are "Institutions" and Why Are They Important? -- Effect of Institutions on Infrastructure Services -- Impact of Procurement Practices on Infrastructure -- Improving Institutions and Infrastructure -- 3 Telecommunications Sector -- Overview of Institutional Arrangements -- Summary of Performance -- Investment Requirements -- Economies of Scale -- Regional Approach -- Policy Conclusions -- 4 Electricity Sector -- Overview of Institutional Framework -- Benchmarking -- Industry Structure and Regulatory Arrangements -- Conclusions -- Recommendations -- 5 Water Sector -- Institutional Arrangements -- Access to Water -- Efficiency -- Quality of Service -- Major Investment Requirements -- Regional Cooperation -- Conclusions -- Recommendations -- 6 Ports and Maritime Transport -- Economic Importance of Ports and Shipping -- Shipping Patterns in the Caribbean -- Size of Ports -- Institutional Arrangements -- Transhipment -- Benchmarking -- Regional Cooperation -- Economies of Scale -- Conclusion and Recommendations -- 7 Airports and Aviation -- Importance of Airports and Air Services to Economic Growth -- Institutional Arrangements-Airports -- Benchmarking-Airports -- Airport Charges -- Airport Efficiency -- Conclusions-Airports -- Institutional Arrangements-Air Services -- Benchmarking-Air Services -- Conclusions-Air Services -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- 8 A Strategy to Sustainably Finance Infrastructure in the Caribbean -- The Debt Context -- New Financing Structures for Infrastructure -- Regional Initiatives -- Sectoral Overview -- Regional Financial Market Development -- Annex -- References -- LIST OF TABLES.
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; 1 Summary; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF UNNUMBERED BOXES; 2 Institutions and Infrastructure; 3 Telecommunications Sector; LIST OF TABLES; 4 Electricity Sector; 5 Water Sector; 6 Ports and Maritime Transport; 7 Airports and Aviation; 8 A Strategy to Sustainably Finance Infrastructure in the Caribbean; Annex; LIST OF UNNUMBERED TABLES; References
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821362808
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780821362808
Language:
English
