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Problem Project
BICECA

Santa Cruz - Puerto Suarez Highway

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Location Bolivia
Total Cost US$377 million
Funding IDB, CAF, EU
Status Implementation

Central Interoceanic Axis

The Central Interoceánico axis is composed by Bolivia, southern Brazil, northern Chile, all of Paraguay and southern Peru. It has an area of 3.3 million km2. It is one of the main transversal axis of South America because the IIRSA axes that cross Bolivia; Perú-Brasil - Bolivia, Andean, Capricorn and waterway Paraguay-Paraná, converge to the interior of the country at some point.
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The challenge of transparency in the construction of megaprojects

17 March 2010

This article is based on an investigation of the Puerto Suárez - Santa Cruz Bi-Oceanic Corridor conducted by a team of professionals from the Center of Applied Studies of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CEADESC) in Bolivia. The investigation is centered on transparency policies applied in the management and development of mega-infrastructure projects within the IIRSA integration initiative in South America, and aims to ignite a debate between civil society and the various international actors that finance IIRSA. The CEADESC study shows that this debate can only take place within a wider discussion about the interrelation between development policy, democracy and human rights given that each one of these dimensions is a condition for advancement of the others. Read more

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BICECA Bolivia Brazil Chile Latin America Andean Development Corporation Inter-American Development Bank Accountability Environmental & Social Policies Infrastructure

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