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Transport prices and costs in Africa : a review of the main international corridors
Teravaninthorn, Supee - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644063
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The african continental free trade area : economic and distributional effects
World Bank (Washington, District of Columbia) - 2020
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement will create the largest free-trade area in the world, measured by the number of countries participating. The pact connects 1.3 billion people across 55 countries with a combined GDP valued at USD 3.4 trillion. It has the potential to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644301
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Africa Can Help Feed Africa : Removing Barriers to Regional Trade in Food Staples
World Bank - 2012
Africa's growing demand for food has been met increasingly by imports from the global market. This, coupled with rising … impacts on poverty. The report highlights the range of barriers to food trade in Africa along the entire value chain. The … that will arise in dealing with the political economy constraints that have until now blocked the capacity of Africa to …
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Reshaping economic geography
2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644071
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Hukou and Highways : The Impact of China's Spatial Development Policies on Urbanization and Regional Inequality
Bosker, Maarten - 2015
China has used two main spatial policies to shape its geographic patterns of development: restricted labor mobility through the Hukou residential registration system and massive infrastructure investment, notably a 96,000 kilometer national expressway network. This paper develops a structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245993
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Market size, sunk costs of entry, and transport costs : an empirical evaluation of the impact of demand-side factors versus supply-side factors on manufacturing productivity
Jones, Patricia; Lartey, Emmanuel; Mengistae, Taye; … - 2019
This paper uses plant-level, panel data from the Ethiopian manufacturing census to estimate the effects of demand-side and supply-side factors on industrywide aggregate productivity. The paper focuses on the effects of three factors: (1) local market size, (2) the value of transportation costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051859
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The Belt and Road Initiative : reshaping economic geography in Central Asia?
Bird, Julia; Lebrand, Mathilde; Venables, Anthony - 2019
This paper develops a computable spatial equilibrium model of Central Asia and uses it to analyze the possible effects of the Belt Road Initiative on the economy of the region. The model captures international and subnational economic units and their connectivity to each other and the rest of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008368
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Transport costs, comparative advantage, and agricultural development : evidence from Jamuna Bridge in Bangladesh
Blankespoor, Brian; Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan; … - 2018
This paper studies the effects of a large reduction in transport costs on agricultural development in a developing country, with a focus on the interactions among the comparative advantage and transport costs of a location, and the transport intensity and value of a commodity. The paper extends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902873
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Transport Costs and Prices in Lao PDR : Unlocking the Potential of an Idle Fleet
World Bank Group - 2018
The cost of transport in Lao PDR is said to be higher than in neighboring countries, affectingthe competitiveness of producers and shippers alike. However, the picture appears to be morenuanced. Since there has not been much hard evidence to support this claim, this paper fills thegap by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645767
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Roads and the Geography of Economic Activities in Mexico
Blankespoor, Brian - 2017
This paper estimates the impacts of road improvements on local employment and specialization in Mexico for 1986-2014, through changes in access to domestic markets and travel costs to ports and the U.S. border. Instrumenting for road placement endogeneity and addressing the recursion problem in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245537