Institutions, performance, and the financing of infrastructure services in the Caribbean /

Institutions, performance, and the financing of infrastructure services in the Caribbean /

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Imprint:Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2005.
Description:xii, 197 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:World Bank working paper, 1726-5878 ; no. 58
Subject:
Infrastructure (Economics) -- Caribbean Area.
Infrastructure (Economics)
Caribbean Area.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5747684
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Other authors / contributors:Jha, Abhas Kumar, 1966-
ISBN:9780821362808
0821362801
082136281X (eISBN)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-197).
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • 1. Summary
  • Levels of Services Vary Across Sectors and Countries
  • Critical Investment Requirements
  • Recommendations
  • Summary
  • 2. Institutions and Infrastructure
  • What Are "Institutions" and Why Are They Important?
  • Effect of Institutions on Infrastructure Services
  • Impact of Procurement Practices on Infrastructure
  • Improving Institutions and Infrastructure
  • 3. Telecommunications Sector
  • Overview of Institutional Arrangements
  • Summary of Performance
  • Investment Requirements
  • Economies of Scale
  • Regional Approach
  • Policy Conclusions
  • 4. Electricity Sector
  • Overview of Institutional Framework
  • Benchmarking
  • Industry Structure and Regulatory Arrangements
  • Conclusions
  • Recommendations
  • 5. Water Sector
  • Institutional Arrangements
  • Access to Water
  • Efficiency
  • Quality of Service
  • Major Investment Requirements
  • Regional Cooperation
  • Conclusions
  • Recommendations
  • 6. Ports and Maritime Transport
  • Economic Importance of Ports and Shipping
  • Shipping Patterns in the Caribbean
  • Size of Ports
  • Institutional Arrangements
  • Transhipment
  • Benchmarking
  • Regional Cooperation
  • Economies of Scale
  • Conclusion and Recommendations
  • 7. Airports and Aviation
  • Importance of Airports and Air Services to Economic Growth
  • Institutional Arrangements-Airports
  • Benchmarking-Airports
  • Airport Charges
  • Airport Efficiency
  • Conclusions-Airports
  • Institutional Arrangements-Air Services
  • Benchmarking-Air Services
  • Conclusions-Air Services
  • Conclusions and Recommendations
  • 8. A Strategy to Sustainably Finance Infrastructure in the Caribbean
  • The Debt Context
  • New Financing Structures for Infrastructure
  • Regional Initiatives
  • Sectoral Overview
  • Regional Financial Market Development
  • Annex
  • References
  • List of Tables
  • 3.1. Institutional Indicators in Caribbean Telecommunications
  • 3.2. Investment Scenarios in Caribbean Telecommunications
  • 4.1. Industry and Governance Structure
  • 4.2. Source of Primary Energy
  • 5.1. Institutional Arrangements of the Water and Sanitation Sector
  • 5.2. Historic Investment Flows (1990-2002) against Investment Requirements (2004-2015), in 2001 U.S. dollars
  • 6.1. Intra-regional Trade in the Caribbean (tons)
  • 6.2. Growth 1999-2003
  • 6.3. Caribbean Ports-Institutional Features
  • 6.4. Performance Data
  • 6.5. Comparison of Port Charges
  • 7.1. Selected Countries and Airports
  • 7.2. Overview of Institutional Arrangements
  • 7.3. Statutory Corporations
  • 7.4. Financial Results of Airports
  • 7.5. Overview of Policies toward Air Services
  • 7.6. Airfares to and from Miami
  • 7.7. Airfares to and from London
  • List of Figures
  • 1.1. Total Fixed and Mobile Lines per 100 People
  • 1.2. Cellular Subscribers per 100 People
  • 1.3. Cost of Cellular Local Call (U.S. dollars per three off-peak minutes)
  • 1.4. Cost of Three-minute Phone Call to United States (U.S. dollars)
  • 1.5. Access to Electricity (% of Population)
  • 1.6. Average End-User Electricity Price (U.S. cents per KWh)
  • 1.7. Transmission and Distribution Losses (%)
  • 1.8. Electricity Employees per 1000 Connections
  • 1.9. Access to Improved Water (percent of Population)
  • 1.10. Economy-Class Airfares from Miami (U.S. dollars)
  • 1.11. Containers per Crane-Hour
  • 1.12. TEUs per Employee
  • 1.13. Annual per Capita Investment Requirements in Water until 2015 (U.S. dollars)
  • 1.14. The Caribbean: Ranking Among Top 30 Most Indebted Emerging Market Countries (Public Sector Debt-to-GDP Ratio, End-2002)
  • 1.15. Aggregate Infrastructure Measure
  • 2.1. Quality of Institutions in the Caribbean
  • 2.2. Effect of Institutions on Economic Growth in the Caribbean
  • 2.3. Comparison of Levels of Education
  • 2.4. Effects of Institutions on Infrastructure Services
  • 2.5. Causality among Institutions, Wealth, Infrastructure, and Education
  • 2.6. Infrastructure Cost Comparison between OECS and Argentina
  • 3.1. Mainline Teledensity vs. GDP per Capita
  • 3.2. Growth in Mainline Teledensity (1990-2002)
  • 3.3. Growth in Cellular Teledensity (1990-2002)
  • 3.4. Total Teledensity by Component
  • 3.5. Total Teledensity vs. GDP per Capita
  • 3.6. Cellular Teledensity vs. GDP per Capita
  • 3.7. Internet Usage vs. GDP per Capita
  • 3.8. Cost of Three-minute Local Call
  • 3.9. Cost of Three-minute Off-peak Mobile Call
  • 3.10. Cost of Three-minute Call to the United States
  • 3.11. Internet Access Monthly Cost
  • 3.12. Reported Faults per 100 Mainlines
  • 3.13. Investment Requirements until 2015: Mainlines
  • 3.14. Investment Requirements until 2015: Cellular Phones
  • 3.15. Cost per Local Phone Call: Population
  • 3.16. Cost per International Phone Call: Population
  • 3.17. Cost of a Mobile Call: Population
  • 3.18. Monthly Internet Cost: Population
  • 3.19. Cost per Local Phone Call: Population Density
  • 4.1. Electric Power Consumption per Capita Compared with GDP per Capita
  • 4.2. Access to Electricity
  • 4.3. Electricity Tariffs
  • 4.4. Benefits of Economies of Scale
  • 4.5. Staff Productivity
  • 4.6. Impact of Staff Productivity on Price
  • 4.7. Transmission and Distribution Losses
  • 4.8. Impact of Staff Productivity on Price
  • 4.9. Total Investment Requirements to 2015
  • 4.10. Investment Requirements as Percentage of GDP
  • 4.11. Possible Reform Structure-Haiti Electricity
  • 5.1. Access to Improved Water Supply
  • 5.2. Access to Improved Sanitation
  • 5.3. Annual per Capita Investment Requirements 2004-2015 to Meet MDG
  • 5.4. Total Investment Requirements 2004-2015 to Meet MDG
  • 5.5. Affordability of Investment Requirements
  • 6.1. Goods, Imports, and Exports as a Percentage of GDP
  • 6.2. TEU Throughput at Selected Ports (1999-2000)
  • 6.3. TEU Throughput per Capita (Country Population in 2000)
  • 6.4. Port Structures
  • 6.5. Port Structures in the Caribbean
  • 6.6. Kingston's Position in Relation to Trade Routes in the Caribbean
  • 6.7. Comparison of Port Performance
  • 6.8. Comparison of Port Charges
  • 6.9. Freight Rates from Miami
  • 6.10. Freight Rates from Miami by Distance
  • 6.11. Routes from Rotterdam
  • 6.12. Freight Rates from Rotterdam
  • 6.13. Central American Ports, Throughput and Movements 1999
  • 6.14. Port TEU Throughput and Crane Productivity
  • 6.15. Port Charges Compared with Throughput
  • 7.1. Runway Lengths (Feet)
  • 7.2. Number of Aircraft Stands per 1,000 Departures
  • 7.3. Terminal Areas and Passenger Throughput
  • 7.4. Average Baggage Arrival Time vs. Total Passenger Throughput
  • 7.5. Total Charges for an Airbus 300 (U.S. dollars)
  • 7.6. Airport Revenue per Passenger (U.S. dollars)
  • 7.7. Airport Revenue per Passenger vs. Total Passenger Throughput
  • 7.8. Air Routes from Miami for Which Fares Were Reviewed
  • 7.9. Airfares from Miami vs. Distance
  • 7.10. Number of Airlines Serving the Airport
  • 7.11. An Overview of Aviation Recommendations
  • 8.1. The Caribbean: Ranking Among Top 30 Most Indebted Emerging Market Countries (Public Sector Debt-to-GDP Ratio, End-2002)
  • 8.2. OBA Concession Contract with Contract Management Provisions and IFI Guarantees
  • 8.3. Lease with Investment Trust
  • 8.4. Matrix of New and Existing Models
  • List of Unnumbered Tables
  • Institutional Features of Infrastructure Sectors in the Caribbean
  • List of Unnumbered Boxes
  • "Financial Blackouts" in the Dominican Republic's Power Sector
  • Vanuatu: A Small Island with A Success Story of Introducing Private Sector in Water Supply
  • Sangster International Airport Privatization Development Project
  • ECTEL-Regulatory Cooperation
  • Mauritius Port
  • Caribbean Examples of the Effect of Quality of Institutions on Infrastructure
  • The Views of Caribbean Infrastructure Practitioner on Infrastructure Construction Costs
  • Institutional Arrangements to Minimize Corruption-The Hong Kong Airport Case
  • Mobile Uptake in Eastern Caribbean States
  • Telecommunications Reform in Guyana
  • A New Approach to Measuring Universal Access in Trinidad and Tobago
  • Universal Access in the Dominican Republic
  • ECTEL-Regulatory Cooperation
  • Observing Economies of Scale
  • "Financial Blackouts" in the Dominican Republic's Power Sector
  • How Could Haiti's Power Sector be Improved?
  • Why did the Privatization of Guyana Power and Light Fail?
  • Electricity Regulation in Jamaica
  • Portrait of a Caribbean Water Utility-Jamaica's National Water Commission
  • Trinidad and Tobago-Who Failed?
  • Vanuatu: A Small Island with A Success Story in Introducing Private Sector in Water Supply
  • Sewage and Tourism
  • Jawaharlal Nehru Port
  • Dubai Port
  • Mauritius Port
  • Security
  • Port Cooperation on Security in New Zealand
  • Sangster International Airport Privatization Development Project
  • Private Financing for Airports in the Dominican Republic
  • Dubai International Airport and Emirates Airline
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