Can white elephants kill? Unintended consequences of infrastructure development in Peru

Bancalari, Antonella

doi:10.1920/wp.ifs.2020.3220

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“…Policies seeking to improve local health conditions, however, under some circumstances can also lead to undesired consequences. Bancalari (2020) provides a good illustration of this by studying 6,000 sewage projects implemented in Perú between 2005 and 2015.…”

Section: Health Inequalities and Local Public Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

Inclusive Cities: Healthy Cities for All

Duren¹,

Benítez²,

Bonilla³

et al. 2022

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Inter-American Development Bank Felipe Herrera Library Inclusive cities: healthy cities for all / edited by Nora Libertun. p. cm. -(IDB Monograph ; 984) Includes bibliographic references. 1. Environmental health-Latin America. 2. Housing and health-Latin America. 3. Health risk assessment-Latin America. 4. Urban policy-Latin America. I. Libertun, Nora. II.Inter-American Development Bank. Housing and Urban Development Division. III. Series. IDB-MG-984This publication reports on some of the health challenges facing cities. It aims to serve as a guide for public managers and decision makers optimize the great potential of cities to improve the well-being of those who reside in the cities of Latin America and the Caribbean. It is organized in two parts. The first part, Health Inequalities in Latin American Cities, focuses on identifying the ways in which social inequality has led to negative health outcomes, in order to make visible the relevance of the challenge of inequality and the urgency to grapple with it. The second part, Urban Policies for Healthy Cities, focuses on how cities can contribute to improving the health standards in their population.The publication addresses critical issues for urban health, such as the interdependence between physical-social factors and health, the relationship between urban characteristics and the incidence of COVID-19, the connections between social inequality and exposure to pollution environment, the relationship between urban planning and gender violence, the power of urban interventions -such as public transport and social housing-to improve health indicators, and the relevance of having good data to improve the accessibility of health systems. All the contributions in this book are based on data and rigorous research, and present real cases of the cities of the region.

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Section: Health Inequalities and Local Public Policymentioning

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Inclusive Cities: Healthy Cities for All

Duren¹,

Benítez²,

Bonilla³

et al. 2022

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“…En segundo lugar, analizar variables de infraestructura es relevante para entender el desarrollo al nivel local; no obstante, activos como este implican estudiar períodos más largos debido a su bajo nivel de varianza (a comparación de las cuatro variables dependientes analizadas). Asimismo, la alta presencia de infraestructura incompleta en el país (es decir, economía política y corrupción) escapa de los objetivos de este estudio (Bancalari, 2020). 19 La elección del período de estudio se explica por la uniformidad del período de las variables empleadas: no existen fuentes de información confiables que permitan construir variables con inferencia al nivel distrital de forma robusta y creíble.…”

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¿Juntos o separados hacia el desarrollo? Gobierno abierto y la construcción de capacidad estatal en los gobiernos locales del Perú, 2011-2014

Aguilar

2021

RSM

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¿Qué factores explican las diferencias en los niveles de desarrollo local dentro de un país? Un determinante clave es la capacidad estatal: la habilidad del Estado para penetrar su territorio e implementar logísticamente sus decisiones en él. El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar el efecto de la capacidad estatal municipal sobre el nivel de desarrollo económico al nivel local en el Perú. Asimismo, se busca evaluar la existencia de externalidades en la asignación de capacidad estatal entre municipalidades vecinas y su efecto en el desarrollo económico local. La metodología empleada se basa en un modelo de Rezagos Espaciales de Variables Independientes (SLX) aumentado con Variables Instrumentales (IV) y Método Generalizado de Momentos (GMM). Los resultados muestran que la interacción entre gobiernos locales desempeña un papel importante en la gestión municipal: los niveles de capacidad estatal local de las municipalidades del Perú (en promedio) se complementan (externalidades positivas). Además, la capacidad estatal de los gobiernos locales está significativamente influenciada por el grado en el que están involucrados los ciudadanos en las actividades del Estado local (gobierno abierto). Finalmente, los resultados muestran que no solo es importante la capacidad estatal de los gobiernos locales del Perú para mejorar el nivel educativo, disminuir la pobreza y aumentar los niveles de ingreso, sino que este efecto positivo y significativo sobre el nivel de desarrollo de los distritos está repotenciado por los efectos de las externalidades de la capacidad estatal de los gobiernos locales vecinos.

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“…A broad empirical literature has recently explored the role of both private and public infrastructure in reducing poverty (Calderón & Servén, 2010; Medeiros et al., 2021) and income inequality (Makmuri, 2017; Medeiros & Ribeiro, 2020) and improving health conditions (Bancarali, 2020) and the level of environmental quality (Erdogan et al., 2020) in low‐ and medium‐income developing countries. These growth and development‐related outcomes reinforce the view that low‐ and medium‐income developing countries face a particular challenge.…”

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Social overhead public infrastructure in a Lewis development framework

Fernandes,

de Oliveira

2023

Metroeconomica

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This study explores the interaction between private and public physical capital accumulation within a Lewis development framework, in which public infrastructure is subject to congestion. The model shows that when both levels of capital are relatively low, a crowding‐out of private investment creates the necessary conditions for the emergence of a development trap, from which a surplus labor economy, if left to the free play of its structural forces, may never escape. Once caught in such a trap, the economy can potentially be released through a big push of public or private capital or a sufficiently balanced combination of both.

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Can white elephants kill? Unintended consequences of infrastructure development in Peru

Cited by 10 publications

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Inclusive Cities: Healthy Cities for All

Inclusive Cities: Healthy Cities for All

¿Juntos o separados hacia el desarrollo? Gobierno abierto y la construcción de capacidad estatal en los gobiernos locales del Perú, 2011-2014

Social overhead public infrastructure in a Lewis development framework

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