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transport costs of -0.25 at that distance. Moreover, the effect differs by the surface of roads between cities. Cities connected … to the port by paved roads are chiefly affected by transport costs to the port, while cities connected to the port by … unpaved roads are more affected by connections to secondary centers. …
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In Latin America, inadequate transportation infrastructure has been identified as an increasingly important impediment … paper examines transport and communications infrastructure initiatives in Latin American and Asian regional trade …
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The paper provides historical perspectives on spatial economic inequalities in Brazil making use of a database on …
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(national roads and rails, highway, airports concessions) in the field of infrastructure financing. All the actors are trying to …
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As planned large investments in road infrastructure continue to be high on the agenda of many African countries, only … first presents data on the state of roads in Sub-Saharan Africa (length, density, condition) as well as on investments in … recommends some changes to improve the developmental impact of roads investments. Better prioritization of investments, better …
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using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference …
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There is widespread evidence that a better access to markets contributes to raising income levels. However, no quantification of the impact of distance to markets has been made on the basis of a sample restricted to advanced — and therefore more homogeneous — countries. This paper applies...
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sea components together with the major performance drivers of intermodal networks including geography, infrastructure …
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Colon) and their hinterlands, this study describes infrastructure restrictions as well as operational and institutional …
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(VF)En termes de population, la hiérarchie des territoires boliviens est nettement dominée par le tripôle formé de La Paz, Santa Cruz et Cochabamba. L’histoire suggère que ce tripôle, de formation récente, résulte d’une combinaison originale de facteurs liés aux ressources...
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