This paper explores how the expansion of labor-intensive manufacturing exports resulting from the United States-Vietnam … Bilateral Trade Agreement in 2001 translated into wages of skilled and unskilled workers and the skill premium in Vietnam … panel individuals from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys of 2002 and 2004, and addressing the issue of …

, where constraints in access, pricing, reliability, and network interfaces, particularly in the port and rail network, are … with secondary research to examine South Africa's port and rail network, and explores the underlying factors contributing … more broadly accessible and competitive rail and port sector based on international case examples. It highlights the need …

significantly affects firm inventory behavior. In particular, road density and transport costs to the port are important to … determine the optimal inventory level. With more roads in a city and/or cheaper access to the port, firms would hold smaller …

extensive data on container imports in the Port of Douala, it seeks to provide a basic understanding of why containers stay on …, operational performance of port operators and efficiency of customs clearance operations. Shipment level analysis is used to …, density of value, bulking and packaging type, last port of call, and region of origin or commodity group on cargo dwell time …

Would improvements in port performance increase trade in countries on the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans? Previous … studies attempted to answer this question using ad hoc measures of port efficiency that do not control for the actual use of … port assets or measures that can be very noisy. To avoid these problems, this paper builds a measure of economic efficiency …

Singapore has been a powerful magnet for foreign direct investment and in recent years has also made significant … Singapore's investment using the Knowledge-Capital Model and compares the impact of skill endowments on manufacturing and …

township developed in the early 1990s through a Sino-Singapore partnership. It is successful not just in the economic sense … intended to examine the success factors and key lessons of the Sino-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park, which can be useful for …

of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …

question by combining a nonexperimental impact evaluation of a large-scale rural roads project in Vietnam with qualitative data …