Land-man relationship in the Caribbean with special reference to Grenada

Includes bibliography

Denmark: land of social consensus?

Includes bibliography

After land reform, the market?

Includes bibliography

Options for land use management in Lingayen Gulf, Philippines

Includes bibliography

Public land acquisition in Latin America

Includes bibliography

Second Latin American meeting of bodies responsible for the supervision, control and regulation of land transport

This edition of the Bulletin presents a summary of topics examined and discussed during the Second Latin American Meeting of Bodies Responsible for the Supervision, Control and Regulation of Land Transport, held at ECLAC Headquarters, Santiago, Chile, from 10 to 12 August 1999. The rapporteur of the meeting was Mr. Humberto Valdés Ríos, Sub-Director, Asociación de Investigación y Producción del Transporte, Cuba.

Supervision, control and regulation of land transport

The first Latin American meeting of bodies responsible for the supervision, control and regulation of land transport, organized jointly by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the National Transport Regulation Commission of Argentina (CNRT), was held in Buenos Aires from 5 to 7 November 1997. Representatives of public- and private-sector bodies connected with land transport in Latin America, the United States of America and Europe took part in the meeting, in an atmosphere which was highly interactive owing to the numerous questions asked and the enriching discussions.

Competitiveness and efficiency in land transport

One of the consequences of the opening of the worlds economies - an integral part of globalization - is increased focus on the efficiency and costs of transport services (on which competitiveness is largely dependent). Countries with inefficient and costly transport services lose out, in terms of economic activity and income, to those with more appropriate transport services. The issue is particularly important in Latin America, where exports mainly consist of bulk consignments of products with comparatively low value/quantity ratios and transport costs are a major determining factor of c.i.f. prices.The determination of competitiveness indices in the long term, however, also needs to include the costs of pollution, congestion and accidents, in addition to the transport costs usually considered as part of the price of freight. Competitiveness, efficiency and the global costs of transport were the main subjects of an international seminar organized in conjunction with the Chilean Institute of Engineers and held on 9 and 10 September 2004 at the Headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).