The annual GDP growth rate of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) was about 3%,
lagging far behind that of other developing regions. While the commodity cycle has come to …

Open Access This book is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution
Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and …

In developing countries, substantial resources are allocated each year to build and upgrade
infrastructure, aiming to facilitate market integration, enhance long-term productivity, and …

Freight transportation can be defined as the movement of goods and services to customers
to obtain a monetary reward. Poor quality transport infrastructure implies higher travelling …

This paper quantifies the welfare gains from international and intranational trade cost
reductions when inner regions of a country access international markets via coastal ports …

I estimate the effect that growth in countries' GDP per capita has on the growth rate of
infrastructure. In order to extract exogenous variation in GDP per capita growth, I use the …

The paper addresses claims implicating higher domestic transportation costs as a significant
barrier to Latin America's trade and economic integration-and the region's inadequate …

This paper estimates the impact of vessels turnaround time on Brazilian exports. To achieve
this goal, we use a difference gravity equation in order to explore the time variation in port …

Territorial differences in labor earnings are expected to diminish with economic
development as barriers to capital mobility decline and technology diffuses within countries …

Development banks operating in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are falling far short
of playing the key role they need to in spurring economic recovery and sustainable …