Reports

Report- Link (English) - 2020

This report presents different forecast methodologies, all of which point to the arrival of large ships within this decade. These models identify the future determinants of the increase in the size of large ships, highlighting the infrastructure-related factors that limit growth in ports and shipping lanes and others related to environmental requirements that drive the increase in the size of large ships.

Report- Link (English) - 2011

The main objective of this report has been to measure the infrastructure gap and the investments needed to close both the horizontal and the vertical gap. Latin America and the Caribbean will have to invest around 5.2% of the region’s GDP annually in order to meet the needs of companies and individuals between 2006 and 2020, assuming an average annual economic growth of 3.9% during this period. If, however, the intention were to close the gap with a group of East Asian countries, expenditures would have to rise to 7.9% of annual GDP.

Report- Link (English) - 2011

This policy discussion brief is a joint response by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), World Bank, and United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to a request made by Ministers during the Third Meeting of Finance Ministers of the Americas and the Caribbean, held in Lima, Peru, on May 28, 2010.