This study focuses on identifying the basic logistics capabilities in Belize, Central America and the Dominican Republic. It concentrates on the ports and sea network, taking into consideration intermodal networks involving both land and sea components together with the major performance drivers...

After analyzing logistics links between the ports of Cartagena (Colombia), Veracruz (Mexico) and Panama (Balboa and Colon) and their hinterlands, this study describes infrastructure restrictions as well as operational and institutional challenges for logistics development in Latin America and...

This paper shows that bank linkages have a positive effect on international trade. A global banking network (GBN) is constructed at the bank level, using individual syndicated loan data from Loan Analytics for 1990-2007. Network distance between bank pairs is computed and aggregated to country...