TY - BOOK ID - 14256615 TI - Infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean : recent developments and key challenges AU - Fay, Marianne. AU - Morrison, Mary PY - 2007 SN - 0821366769 9786610643578 1280643579 0821366777 PB - Washington, DC : World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Infrastructure (Economics) KW - Capital, Social (Economics) KW - Economic infrastructure KW - Social capital (Economics) KW - Social infrastructure KW - Social overhead capital KW - Economic development KW - Human settlements KW - Public goods KW - Public works KW - Capital UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14256615 AB - This book reviews Latin America's experience with infrastructure reform over the last fifteen years. It argues that the region's infrastructure has suffered from public retrenchment and unrealistic expectations about private involvement. Poor infrastructure now hampers productivity, growth, and poverty reduction. Addressing this requires more and better spending, and acceptance that governments remain central to infrastructure provision and supervision, although the private sector still has an important role to play. ER -