Infrastructure and its role in Brazil's development process

Edmund Amann; Werner Baer; Thomas Trebat; Juan Villa Lora

doi:10.1016/j.qref.2016.07.007

Infrastructure and its role in Brazil's development process

Edmund Amann^*, Werner Baer, Thomas Trebat, Juan Villa Lora

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This article considers the relationship between growth and infrastructure spending in the Brazilian context and the nature and causes of infrastructural underinvestment. The paper begins by considering the relationship between infrastructural investment and economic growth on both a national and regional basis. Next, focusing on the critical urban transportation sector, the paper gauges the infrastructural shortfall facing Brazil and the policies designed to overcome it. Given the obvious importance of infrastructure, why has investment not been higher? In the final section we argue that a central reason for this lies in regulatory design and implementation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	66-73
Number of pages	8
Journal	Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance
Volume	62
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2016.07.007
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2016

Keywords

12.009: L9 – Industry Studies
15.001: O1 – Economic Development
15.002: O2 – Development Planning and Policy
18.004: R4 – Transportation Systems
Brazil
Growth
Infrastructure
Regulation
Transportation and Utilities

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Global Development Institute

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