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Global logistics indicators, supply chain metrics, and bilateral trade patterns

Hausman, Warren H. - 2005

various proxies, including indices based on expert judgment in some cases. This paper focuses on logistics friction and draws … on a data set recently compiled by the World Bank with specific quantitative metrics of logistics performance in terms of … time, cost, and variability in time. It finds that the new variables that relate directly to logistics performance have a …

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Transport and Logistics : Myanmar Infrastructure Monitoring

World Bank - 2022

Transport and logistics services in Myanmar have been substantially hit by the impacts of the February 2021 coup and … the surge in Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases. Logistics companies have been affected by rising fuel prices … inland transport services. Transportation and logistics services are expected to be severely impacted by continuing high fuel …

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Kenyan exports of Nile perch : impact of food safety standards on an export-oriented supply chain

Henson, Spencer - 2004

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Where is the Value in the Chain? : Pathways out of Plastic Pollution

World Bank - 2022

Plastics have been a development driver for decades but have turned into a development problem due to their omnipresence in the environment. Marine litter and plastic pollution have attracted much attention and commitments from governments and the private sector alike in the past few years....

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Socialist Republic of Vietnam Scaling Up Rural Sanitation : Strengthening Demand Creation and Supply Chain

World Bank - 2016

This report concerns two streams of Technical Assistance provided by the World Bank Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) to the Government of Vietnam. They are: strengthening the enabling environment, capacity building systems and evidence-based learning and lesson sharing. Strengthening demand...

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Ghana : Cocoa Supply Chain Risk Assessment

World Bank - 2014

Cocoa is by far Ghana's most important crop. It dominates the agricultural sector and is a major source of income for approximately 800,000 farmers and many others engaged in trade, transportation, and processing of cocoa. Cocoa holds a unique position in Ghana's economy. It has long played a...

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Establishing a Green Charcoal Value Chain in Rwanda : A Feasibility Study

World Bank - 2014

Biomass is the most important source of energy in Rwanda, especially for domestic cooking. Today approximately 86 percent of primary energy comes from biomass, mainly in the form of wood that is either used directly as a fuel (57 percent), or converted into charcoal (23 percent) together with...

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Tuna Fisheries

World Bank - 2016

This is a background paper to the Pacific Possible report. The Pacific Island countries control one of the World's largest and healthiest tuna stock. They have been able to significantly increase revenue from fisheries licenses over the past few years through the introduction of the Vessel Day...

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Haiti Coffee Supply Chain Risk Assessment

World Bank - 2010

-farm coffee productivity; (2) a land tenure system which inhibits long term investment; (3) poor transportation and logistics …

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Agro-Logistics in Central America : A Supply Chain Approach

World Bank - 2012

This chapter uses supply chain analysis (SCA) to identify transport and logistics bottlenecks that add costs, times and … uncertainty to the exportation of perishable agricultural products from Central America. Macro-level analyses of logistics … performance, including the logistics performance index, Doing Business Reports and Enterprise Surveys of the World Bank, as well …

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