Infrastructure, integration and equity: The social impact of the health and public transportation infrastructure.

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cepal.callNumberINT UN/TR 8(268/2008)
cepal.docTypeBoletines
cepal.idSade38176
cepal.topicEngINFRASTRUCTURE
cepal.topicSpaINFRAESTRUCTURA
cepal.workareaEngNATURAL RESOURCES
cepal.workareaSpaRECURSOS NATURALES
dc.contributor.authorFerro, Gustavo
dc.contributor.authorLentini, Emilio
dc.contributor.entityNU. CEPAL. División de Recursos Naturales e Infraestructura
dc.coverage.spatialEngLATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
dc.coverage.spatialSpaAMERICA LATINA Y EL CARIBE
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-20T01:31:37Z
dc.date.available2014-03-20T01:31:37Z
dc.date.issued2008-12
dc.description.abstractAcademicians and practitioners generally agree that there is a positive correlation between more and better infrastructure and economic growth. From the broader perspective of development, attempts have been made in the literature to identify the different theoretical connections and the empirical patterns that link infrastructure to productivity, on the one hand, and those that link it to social inclusion and equity, on the other hand. Infrastructure contributes to development in different ways. The capital involved is not homogeneous, nor is its effect on the distributive aspects. Water and sanitation have a particularly strong association with the health of the general population and with infant mortality, early childhood health, learning abilities and the acquisition of labour skills. With respect to transportation, the reduction of costs and travel times has a direct economic impact on economic activities of production and domestic and international distribution. That infrastructure also has a social and distributive role to play by reducing the number of fatal accidents and serious injuries in the sectors that are naturally most susceptible to them, namely, the poor. Under the broad umbrella of infrastructure, we can include a number of facilities that make possible the provision of certain services. Some of these facilities require very significant fixed capital investments; some of them are residential, while others are not necessarily. What they all have in common is the existence of networks (transportation, wiring, pipelines) and a strong convergence of physical capital and/or technology, as well as the need for major investments in periodic maintenance.
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11362/36307
dc.language.isoeng
dc.physicalDescription8 p.
dc.publisherECLAC
dc.publisher.placeSantiago
dc.relation.isPartOfSeriesFAL Bulletin
dc.relation.isPartOfSeriesNo268
dc.relation.translationLanguagespa
dc.relation.translationRecordInfraestructura, integración y equidad: el impacto social de la infraestructura sanitaria y de transporte de personas.
dc.relation.translationUrihttps://hdl.handle.net/11362/36018
dc.subject.unbisEngECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subject.unbisEngPHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
dc.subject.unbisEngGOVERNMENT POLICY
dc.subject.unbisEngPASSENGER TRANSPORT
dc.subject.unbisSpaCRECIMIENTO ECONOMICO
dc.subject.unbisSpaINFRAESTRUCTURA FISICA
dc.subject.unbisSpaPOLITICA GUBERNAMENTAL
dc.subject.unbisSpaTRANSPORTE DE PASAJEROS
dc.titleInfrastructure, integration and equity: The social impact of the health and public transportation infrastructure.
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