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The Trade-Reducing Effects of Restrictions on Liner Shipping
Bertho, Fabien - 2017
This paper examines how policy governing the liner shipping sector affects maritime transport costs and seaborne trade flows. The paper uses a novel data set and finds that restrictions, particularly on foreign investment, increase maritime transport costs, strongly but unevenly. The...
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Market-Based Instruments for International Aviation and Shipping as a Source of Climate Finance
Keen, Michael - 2017
The international aviation and maritime sectors today enjoy relatively favorable tax treatment, as their fuels are not taxed and the sectors are not subject to any value-added tax or turnover tax. Nor are these fuel uses subject to any global measures to reduce their associated CO2 emissions,...
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Regional Carbon Pricing for International Maritime Transport : Challenges and Opportunities for Global Geographical Coverage
Dominioni, Goran - 2018
Although the existing literature identifies a fuel levy imposed by means of a global agreement as the most efficient policy for carbon pricing in the maritime sector, scholars and policy makers debate the possibility for regional measures to be introduced in case a global agreement cannot be...
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How Do Differing Standards Increase Trade Costs? The Case of Pallets
Raballand, Gaël - 2017
sizes around the world. The case of pallets is examined to illustrate the impact of multiplicity of standards on trade costs …. We select this case because pallets are used all around the world, pallet standards are not too sophisticated, and data … because of the lack of rental and exchange pallet markets. To mitigate the costs of this multiplicity of standards, the World …
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Uganda's Infrastructure : A Continental Perspective
Ranganathan, Rupa - 2017
Uganda has made substantial progress on its infrastructure agenda in recent years. The early and successful ICT reform detonated a huge expansion in mobile coverage and penetration resulting in a highly competitive market. Power sector restructuring has paved the way for a rapid doubling of...
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The Sadc's Infrastructure : A Regional Perspective
Ranganathan, Rupa - 2017
Infrastructure improvements boosted growth in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) by 1.2 percentage points per capita per year during 1995-2005, mainly from access to mobile telephony. Road network improvements made small growth contributions, while power sector inadequacy had a...
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Mozambique's Infrastructure : A Continental Perspective
Dominguez, Carolina - 2017
In the last 10 years, Mozambique's economy has grown steadily at an impressive rate of 7.7 percent per year, driven by the service sector, light industry, and agriculture. This pace is expected to continue or even increase with the massive influx of already-planned investment on the order of...
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Cameroon's Infrastructure : A Continental Perspective
Dominguez, Carolina - 2017
The poor state of Cameroon's infrastructure is a key bottleneck to the nation's economic growth. From 2000 to 2005, improvements in information and communications technology (ICT) boosted Cameroon's growth performance by 1.26 percentage points per capita, while deficient power infrastructure...
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Zimbabwe's Infrastructure : A Continental Perspective
Pushak, Nataliya - 2017
Despite general economic decline and power-supply deficiencies, infrastructure made a modest net contribution of just less than half a percentage point to Zimbabwe's improved per capita growth performance in recent years. Raising the country's infrastructure endowment to that of the region's...
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Sudan's Infrastructure : A Continental Perspective
Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia - 2017
Improvements in infrastructure across Sudan in recent years have contributed 1.7 percentage points to the country's per capita growth. Consistent with trends in other countries, the ICT revolution that swept Africa contributed more than any other sector to growth in Sudan. Raising the...
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