Calderón, CésarServén, Luis2012-03-192012-03-192009-05-29https://hdl.handle.net/10986/3182This paper documents the trends in infrastructure in major Latin American economies over the last quarter century. Drawing from an expanded and updated data set, the paper sheds light on the region's infrastructure performance along four major dimensions. First, the paper documents the trends in the quantity of Latin America's infrastructure assets, using a comparative cross-regional perspective. Second, the paper presents a battery of indicators of the quality of infrastructure services, taking the same comparative perspective. Third, the paper reviews Latin America's performance in terms of the universality of access to infrastructure services. Lastly, the paper offers a detailed account of the trends in infrastructure investment in Latin America's six major economies since 1980, disaggregated by both sector of origin (public and private) and destination (power, transport and telecommunications).CC BY 3.0 IGOACCESS TO SAFE WATERACCESSIBILITYACCOUNTINGAIRPORTSCAPITAL FLOWSCASH FLOWDEFICITSDEPRECIATIONDISTRIBUTION LOSSESECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTECONOMICSELECTRIC POWERELECTRICITYELECTRICITY GENERATIONELECTRICITY INFRASTRUCTUREEXCESS DEMANDEXPANSIONFIRMSFISCAL POLICIESFOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTGENERATIONGENERATION CAPACITYGOVERNMENT INVESTMENTHOUSEHOLD CONNECTIONINFRASTRUCTURE ASSETSINFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENTINFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTINFRASTRUCTURE PERFORMANCEINFRASTRUCTURE REFORMINFRASTRUCTURE SECTORINFRASTRUCTURE SERVICESINTERNATIONAL ENERGYINTERNATIONAL ROAD FEDERATIONINVESTMENT CLIMATEINVESTMENT IN ROADSLAND TRANSPORTLENGTH OF ROADLOCAL GOVERNMENTSLOCAL TELEPHONEMOBILITYMUNICIPALITIESPOPULATION DENSITYPOPULATION WITH ACCESSPOWERPOWER SECTORPOWER THEFTPRIVATE INFRASTRUCTUREPRIVATE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTPRIVATE INVESTMENTPRIVATE INVESTMENT IN INFRASTRUCTUREPRIVATE SECTORPRIVATE SECTOR INVOLVEMENTPRIVATIZATIONPUBLICPUBLIC ENTERPRISESPUBLIC EXPENDITUREPUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEWPUBLIC INFRASTRUCTUREPUBLIC INVESTMENTPUBLIC INVESTMENT IN INFRASTRUCTUREPUBLIC INVESTMENTSPUBLIC SECTORPUBLIC WORKSRAILROADSRAILWAYSROADROAD NETWORKROAD QUALITYROADSRURAL TRANSPORTSANITATIONSANITATION FACILITIESSTATE OWNED ENTERPRISESSTOCKSSURFACE TRANSPORTTAXTELECOMMUNICATIONSTRAILSTRANSPORTTRANSPORTATIONWATER SERVICESWorld Bank10.1596/3182