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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 …
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Trade facilitation policies intend to simplify administrative processes and accelerate the handling of shipments across borders. Recent research shows that these policies have substantial effects on trade flows. In this chapter, we discuss what the existing evidence for trade implies for the...
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We quantify the effect of container technology on transport costs and trade by estimating the modal choice between containerization and breakbulk shipping using micro-level trade data. The model is motivated by novel facts that relate container usage to shipment, destination and firm...
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to digital infrastructure, services and data. We assess the impact of digital connectivity, proxied by the number of …
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their small size and remoteness from major world markets. In this paper we study the importance of transport connectivity … for Pacific economies when participating in the world economy. The paper first describes the evolution of trade flows of … datasets. One contains all shipping connections within the Pacific and with the rest of the world; the second all flight …
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flows. The bilateral trade inflows are likely to boost trade volume and can be used for the development of infrastructure …
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infrastructure on overall and intra-Africa trade covering 44 African countries and their 173 trade partners for the periods 2000 … communication infrastructure using principal component analysis. The findings disclose that intra-Africa and overall Africa’s trade … robustly determined by quality of institutions, border and transport efficiency, physical and communication infrastructure. The …
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infrastructure on overall and intra-Africa trade covering 44 African countries and their 173 trade partners for the periods 2000 … communication infrastructure using principal component analysis. The findings disclose that intra-Africa and overall Africa's trade … robustly determined by the quality of institutions, border and transport efficiency, physical and communication infrastructure …
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Following closely the analytical approach adopted by Head and Mayer (2004) and Novy (2010), this paper derives a micro-founded bilateral trade cost measure for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as a function of observable domestic and inter-national trade data. The derived measure of trade cost by Novy...
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We show that economic development is associated with lower trade costs by applying a gravity equation to exports from 103 Italian provinces to 188 countries over the period 1995-2004. Italian provinces are heterogeneous with respect to trade costs
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