Transport Prices And Costs In Africa
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Transport Prices And Costs In Africa
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Author : Supee Teravaninthorn
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2009
Transport Prices And Costs In Africa written by Supee Teravaninthorn and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Transportation categories.
Transport prices for most African landlocked countries range from 15 to 20 percent of import costs. This is approximately two to three times more than in most developed countries. It is well known that weak infrastructure can account for low trade performance. Thus, it becomes necessary to understand what types of regional transport services operate in landlocked African nations and it is critical to identify the regulation disparities and provision anomalies that hurt infrastructure efficiency, even when the physical infrastructure, such as a road transport corridor, exists. Transport Prices and Costs in Africa analyzes the various reasons for poor transport performance seen widely throughout Africa and provides a compelling case for a number of national and regional reforms that are vital to the effort to address the underlying causes of high transport prices and costs and service unpredictability seen in Africa. The book will greatly help supervisory authorities throughout the region develop and implement a comprehensive transport policy that will facilitate long-term growth.
Infrastructure Geographical Disadvantage And Transport Costs
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Author : Nuno Limão
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 1999
Infrastructure Geographical Disadvantage And Transport Costs written by Nuno Limão and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Africa categories.
"The median landlocked country has only 30 percent of the trade volume of the median coastal economy. Halving transport costs increases that trade volume by a factor of five. Improving the standard of infrastructure from that of the bottom quarter of countries to that of the median country increases trade by 50 percent. Improving infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa is especially important for increasing African trade"--Cover.
Assessing Travel Time And Transportation Costs In Sub Saharan Africa
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Author : Guo, Zhe
language : en
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Release Date : 2016-09-12
Assessing Travel Time And Transportation Costs In Sub Saharan Africa written by Guo, Zhe and has been published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-12 with Political Science categories.
The government of Malawi is pursuing an export led agricultural growth strategy, and therefore improving transport quality between major urban areas, as well as between rural areas and ports of trade or market centers, is a key pri-ority (DTIS, 2014). For this reason, being able to assess travel distances, times, and costs for major commerce routes is an important first step. Despite this, there exists a lack of basic data relating to the geographic and economic as-pects of road travel in many of these countries. The purpose of this technical brief is to describe the procedure taken for the estimation of transportation costs for use in the development of a spatially disaggregated, market level model of the Malawian agricultural sector, which is being done as part of BioSight’s ongoing work on the sustainable intensi-fication of agriculture in Africa, south of the Sahara. Modelling exercises such as these require estimation of the mar-keting margins of agricultural inputs and outputs traded across regions. The transport cost makes up a significant component of the marketing margin. High quality data on transport costs is therefore crucial for the parameterization and application of market models such as these. This technical brief describes a procedure for estimating transport distances, times, and costs between three major urban areas in south, central, and north Malawi. The difficulties around obtaining reliable spatial data and how to use these to develop and assess specific transport routes are dis-cussed.
Have Transport Costs Contributed To The Relative Decline Of African Exports
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Author : Azita Amjadi
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 1995
Have Transport Costs Contributed To The Relative Decline Of African Exports written by Azita Amjadi and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Exports categories.
The Significance Of Transport Costs In Africa
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Author : Wim Naudé
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The Significance Of Transport Costs In Africa written by Wim Naudé and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Transportation categories.
The Cost Of Being Landlocked
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Author : Jean-Fran ois Arvis
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2010-07-07
The Cost Of Being Landlocked written by Jean-Fran ois Arvis and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-07 with Business & Economics categories.
'The Cost of Being Landlocked' proposes a new analytical framework to interpret and model the constraints faced by logistics chains on international trade corridors. The plight of landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) has naturally received special attention for decades, leading to a specific set of development priorities based upon the concept of dependence on the transit state. Therefore, the standard approach used to tackle the cost of being landlocked has been predominantly aimed at developing regional transport infrastructure and ensuring freedom of transit through regional conventions. But without sufficient attention given to the performance of logistics service delivery to traders, the standard approach is unable to address key bottleneck concerns and the factors that contribute to the cost of being landlocked. Consequently, the impact of massive investment on trade corridors could not materialize to its full extent. Based on extensive data collection in several regions of the world, this book argues that although landlocked developing countries do face high logistics costs, these costs are not a result of poor road infrastructure, since transport prices largely depend on trucking market structure and implementation of transit processes. This book suggests that high logistics costs in LLDCs are a result of low logistics reliability and predictability, which stem from rent-seeking and governance issues. 'The Cost of Being Landlocked' will serve as a useful guide for policy makers, supervisory authorities, and development agencies.
Agricultural Pricing Systems And Transportation Policy In Africa
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Author : Mark Gersovitz
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 1991
Agricultural Pricing Systems And Transportation Policy In Africa written by Mark Gersovitz and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with categories.
Africa S Transport Infrastructure
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Author : Heinrich Bofinger
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2011-01-01
Africa S Transport Infrastructure written by Heinrich Bofinger and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Transportation categories.
This book will be of interest to governments in the region and to multilateral and bilateral aid and lending agencies, as well as to graduate students, faculty, and researchers in African studies and transport studies. --Book Jacket.
Road Network Upgrading And Overland Trade Expansion In Sub Saharan Africa
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Author : Piet Buys
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2006
Road Network Upgrading And Overland Trade Expansion In Sub Saharan Africa written by Piet Buys and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Africa, Sub-Saharan categories.
Recent research suggests that isolation from regional and international markets has contributed significantly to poverty in many Sub-Saharan African countries. Numerous empirical studies identify poor transport infrastructure and border restrictions as significant deterrents to trade expansion. In response, the African Development Bank has proposed an integrated network of functional roads for the subcontinent. Drawing on new econometric results, the authors quantify the trade-expansion potential and costs of such a network. They use spatial network analysis techniques to identify a network of primary roads connecting all Sub-Saharan capitals and other cities with populations over 500,000. The authors estimate current overland trade flows in the network using econometrically-estimated gravity model parameters, road transport quality indicators, actual road distances, and estimates of economic scale for cities in the network. Then they simulate the effect of feasible continental upgrading by setting network transport quality at a level that is functional, but less highly developed than existing roads in countries like South Africa and Botswana. The authors assess the costs of upgrading with econometric evidence from a large World Bank database of road project costs in Africa. Using a standard approach to forecast error estimation, they derive a range of potential benefits and costs. Their baseline results indicate that continental network upgrading would expand overland trade by about $250 billion over 15 years, with major direct and indirect benefits for the rural poor. Financing the program would require about $20 billion for initial upgrading and $1 billion annually for maintenance. The authors conclude with a discussion of supporting institutional arrangements and the potential cost of implementing them.
Highways To Success Or Byways To Waste
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Author : Rubaba Ali
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2015-09-30
Highways To Success Or Byways To Waste written by Rubaba Ali and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-30 with Business & Economics categories.
Roads are the arteries through which the economy pulses. They connect sellers to markets, workers to jobs, students to education, and the sick to hospitals. Yet much of the developing world, Africa in particular, lacks adequate transportation infrastructure. Accordingly investments in transportation remain a cornerstone of the development agenda. Sub-Saharan Africa spends roughly $6.8 billion per year on paving roads, and the World Bank invests more on roads than on education, health, and social services combined. Despite the development focus on transportation, methodologies for evaluating which road projects to fund are often dis-jointed and unreliable. This report hopes to improve upon the current approaches by establishing a new methodology for prioritization which can be applied to a diverse set of scenarios, regions, and projects. This book demonstrates how modern econometrics and geospatial techniques can be combined to analyze the latest available geo-referenced datasets at the smallest possible scale to answer some of the most important questions in development. Uniquely this report attempts to shed light on some of the most profound puzzles in determining the impacts of roads and where to locate these. Does road infrastructure unleash a virtuous growth cycle? Is it advisable to improve roads in conflict prone zones? What is the effect of improving market access on farming practices? And what are the impacts of roads on forests and biodiversity? It is envisioned that the approach used in this book can be a reference guide to researchers from across the spectrum of international development, who are seeking new tools and insights into the many issues (technical and non-technical) of this important field.