Institutions, Performance, and the Financing of Infrastructure Services in the Caribbean
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...
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okr-10986-72572021-04-23T14:02:28Z Institutions, Performance, and the Financing of Infrastructure Services in the Caribbean Jha, Abhas Kumar ACCESS TO SERVICES AIRPORTS BENCHMARK BENCHMARKING BENCHMARKS CAPITAL COSTS CENTRAL AMERICAN COMPETITIVE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR COMPETITIVENESS CONCESSION AREA CONCESSION CONTRACT CONSUMERS CONTINUITY OF SERVICE CONTRACT MANAGEMENT DEBT DEVALUATION DEVELOPED COUNTRIES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC IMPACT ECONOMICS ECONOMIES OF SCALE ELECTRICITY ELECTRICITY GENERATION EXPENDITURES EXPORTS FAIR TRADING GDP GDP PER CAPITA GOVERNANCE INDICATORS GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT HEALTH PROBLEMS IMPORTS INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME LEVELS INDEXATION INEFFICIENCY INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE INVESTMENT REQUIREMENTS JOINT VENTURE LABOR PRODUCTIVITY LEGISLATION LICENSES 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. 2012-06-06T15:55:46Z 2012-06-06T15:55:46Z 2005 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/01/6057352/institutions-performance-financing-infrastructure-services-caribbean 978-0-8213-6280-8 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7257 English en_US World Bank Working Paper No. 58 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research :: Publication Publications & Research :: Publication Latin America & Caribbean |
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ACCESS TO SERVICES AIRPORTS BENCHMARK BENCHMARKING BENCHMARKS CAPITAL COSTS CENTRAL AMERICAN COMPETITIVE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR COMPETITIVENESS CONCESSION AREA CONCESSION CONTRACT CONSUMERS CONTINUITY OF SERVICE CONTRACT MANAGEMENT DEBT DEVALUATION DEVELOPED COUNTRIES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC IMPACT ECONOMICS ECONOMIES OF SCALE ELECTRICITY ELECTRICITY GENERATION EXPENDITURES EXPORTS FAIR TRADING GDP GDP PER CAPITA GOVERNANCE INDICATORS GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT HEALTH PROBLEMS IMPORTS INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME LEVELS INDEXATION INEFFICIENCY INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE INVESTMENT REQUIREMENTS JOINT VENTURE LABOR PRODUCTIVITY LEGISLATION LICENSES |
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ACCESS TO SERVICES AIRPORTS BENCHMARK BENCHMARKING BENCHMARKS CAPITAL COSTS CENTRAL AMERICAN COMPETITIVE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR COMPETITIVENESS CONCESSION AREA CONCESSION CONTRACT CONSUMERS CONTINUITY OF SERVICE CONTRACT MANAGEMENT DEBT DEVALUATION DEVELOPED COUNTRIES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC IMPACT ECONOMICS ECONOMIES OF SCALE ELECTRICITY ELECTRICITY GENERATION EXPENDITURES EXPORTS FAIR TRADING GDP GDP PER CAPITA GOVERNANCE INDICATORS GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT HEALTH PROBLEMS IMPORTS INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME LEVELS INDEXATION INEFFICIENCY INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE INVESTMENT REQUIREMENTS JOINT VENTURE LABOR PRODUCTIVITY LEGISLATION LICENSES Institutions, Performance, and the Financing of Infrastructure Services in the Caribbean |
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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. |
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Jha, Abhas Kumar |
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Jha, Abhas Kumar |
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Publications & Research :: Publication |
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Institutions, Performance, and the Financing of Infrastructure Services in the Caribbean |
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Institutions, Performance, and the Financing of Infrastructure Services in the Caribbean |
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Institutions, Performance, and the Financing of Infrastructure Services in the Caribbean |
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Institutions, Performance, and the Financing of Infrastructure Services in the Caribbean |
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Institutions, Performance, and the Financing of Infrastructure Services in the Caribbean |
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institutions, performance, and the financing of infrastructure services in the caribbean |
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Washington, DC: World Bank |
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2012 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/01/6057352/institutions-performance-financing-infrastructure-services-caribbean http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7257 |
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