Infrastructure, Geographical Disadvantage, and Transport Costs.

December 1999 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 coun...

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Main Authors: Venables, A, Limao, N
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank 1999