remoteness is eight times bigger than that for the Pacific islands. By lowering transport costs, improved infrastructure fosters … from their trading partners and positively affected by their remoteness, defined as the average weighted distance between … costs, the effect of remoteness and distance is diluted. An augmented gravity model applied to the Pacific islands …

Poor domestic transportation infrastructure in developing countries is often cited as an important impediment for … accessing international markets. Yet, evidence on how transportation infrastructure improvements affect the volume and …. Two results emerge. First, we estimate that this road infrastructure project accounts for 15 percent of the export …

remoteness and idiosyncratic distribution of sectoral production. The cross-country variation of trade openness derives more from …