Africa’s interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...

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Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...

Africa's road networks tend to have an interior-to-coast shape. As such, they are better placed to export natural resources, than to support regional trade. Are they the best response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of political distortions? To answer this question, we...