scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic …-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa …

conditions to be more important in determining transport costs. A key variable, especially in these countries, is corruption …. Very high corruption has the potential to prevent positive effects from road infrastructure on transport costs or to even …