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The paper discusses project preparation and procurement approaches adopted in Latin America and the Caribbean and how sustainability is incorporated into these.

The study provides a quantitative analysis of the potential gains that would stem from improving efficiency in infrastructure spending in Latin America and the Caribbean.

This report analyses the school design requirements in force in LAC countries.

This publication illustrates key Disaster Risk Management concepts and reviews DRM in the school systems of six LAC countries.

This paper compares two approaches to the evaluation of mega transport project success: the iron triangle and the holistic approach approach.

This report discusses findings from four case studies of the pre-investment stage in infrastructure projects in Latin America and the Caribbean.

This paper analyses the regulatory environment of ICT and provides policy recommendations for the development of the telecommunications sector in Panama.

This report provides an analytical framework to understand the fundamental institutions of good telecommunications regulation and analyzes the governance of telecommunications in Latin America and the Caribbean.

This paper analyzes the trends and challenges of competitiveness and innovation in the tourism and telecommunications industries of Latin America and the Caribbean from a strategic and global perspective.

This technical note contains a methodology to promote the use of good corporate governance practices for water and sanitation enterprises (especially SOEs) in Latin America and the Caribbean, based on IDB experiences and other relevant cases from network utilities.

The primary objective of this Technical Note is to provide guidance to utility companies either for improving the operations-phase implementation of a current environmental management system or for developing a system.

Five reports in this series assess the regulatory framework for trade and investment in five areas - horizontal measures, information and communications technologies, transport services, professional services, and tourism services in Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago under the CARIFORUM - European Union Economic Partnership Agreement. This report focuses on information and communications technology.

The objective of the study is to strengthen capacity of geohazard disaster resilience of federal highway infrastructure in Brazil through reviewing disaster risk management (DRM) capacity for federal road infrastructure and case studies of applying innovative methodologies for assessing disaster risk and evaluating economic benefits of resilience countermeasures.

Five reports in this series assess the regulatory framework for trade and investment in five areas - horizontal measures, information and communications technologies, transport services, professional services, and tourism services in Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago under the CARIFORUM - European Union Economic Partnership Agreement. This report focuses on transport services.

The objective of this paper is to explore the impact of Uruguay's privatization and subsequent nationalization of water services on network access and water quality

This report outlines a project that serves as a pilot program, demonstrating a model that regional gas distribution companies can replicate throughout Colombia to speed access to piped natural gas for poor households.

This report looks into the relation between the establishment of a regulatory agency and the performance of the electricity sector using regression techniques using a dataset of 220 electric utilities.

This report summarises the growing involvement of consumer participation in infrastructure regulation in the context of East Asia and the Pacific.