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Public-Private Partnerships and the Infrastructure Challenge in Latin America

Stefania Scandizzo
Discussion Draft
Emerging Markets Forum
November 2007

This paper is organized in five sections (including this introduction). Section 2 gives a brief overview of developments in infrastructure in Latin America over the last decades, and the reasons for reduced infrastructure investment in the region. Section 3 discusses the challenges facing infrastructure development and financing in the region. Section 4 considers the different sources of financing available for infrastructure in Latin America. Section 5 discusses the role of regional cooperation in infrastructure. Finally, section 6 presents concluding remarks, which focus on the need to expand infrastructure investment in the region through a combination of increased public spending, improved public-private partnerships, new sources of financing and regional cooperation.

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