addressed through donor funded operations. This ESW focuses on roads, air, and port transport. Transport infrastructure and …

world over the last five years. The combined throughput of container terminals in the region reached almost 5 million twenty … additional port movements generated by transshipment in regional hub(s). Given the regional dynamics of ports in West Africa …, there is also a good case for more cooperation between West African countries on port reform, competition and regulation …

decade, an outstanding port and logistics hub with few precedents in other African countries. The objective of the present … study is to strengthen the competitiveness of the ports of Djibouti (old port of Djibouti and new port of Doraleh) and … ensure their medium-term and long-term development by designing a modern and efficient regulation system for private port …

Traffic at Chittagong Port, which handles 90 percent of Bangladesh's foreign trade, has been growing rapidly. The … is projected for the foreseeable future. Chittagong Port has not responded to this demand growth effectively, resulting … in congestions and delays at the port, as well as high costs to port users. The delays and uncertainties in port services …

World Bank and S&P Global Market Intelligence container port performance index and underlying data are intended to …, shipping lines, port and terminal operators, shippers, logistics companies and consumers. The ranking is based on time vessels … needed to spend in port to complete workloads over the course of 2021, a year that saw unprecedented port congestion and …

the inaugural edition of the Container Port Performance Index (CPPI 2020), has been produced by the World Bank's Transport …-fifths of global merchandise trade (by volume) carried by sea. Accordingly, how a maritime port performs is a crucial element in … the cost of international trade for a country. Despite the centrality of the port to global value chains, one of the major …

have shown that firm entry, growth and productivity are impeded by corruption and overly burdensome regulation. Most of … to Russia (e.g. Yakovlev and Zhuravskaya, 2007). Cross-regional variation in corruption and regulatory burden in Russia … (NGO) and academic communities who are interested in regulatory reform, corruption, and related aspects of the business …

Corruption is bad for development. Leaving aside the morality of bribe taking, influence peddling, embezzlement, and … other abuses of power for personal or narrow group gain, corruption impedes investment and growth and exacerbates poverty … to larger collective ends includes the laws that form the core of norms and institutions. Corruption can never be …