International Trade And Transportation Infrastructure Development

Author : Juan Carlos Villa,Maria Boile,Sotirios Theofanis
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780128157411

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International Trade and Transportation Infrastructure Development by Juan Carlos Villa,Maria Boile,Sotirios Theofanis Pdf

International Trade and Transportation Infrastructure Development: Experiences in North America and Europe examines the impact of trade agreements, such as the North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the European Union Customs Union, and their relationship to transportation systems and infrastructure in member countries. It analyzes historical trade by mode, evaluating modal shifts due to trade policy and disputes, and their implications for all involved nations. This book also examines both supply and demand trends, reviewing transportation processes, and the stakeholders involved. Capacity development, funding mechanisms, and operational characteristics of each mode are detailed in relation to the policies that influence them. The book reviews recent trends and the impact of disruptive technologies, as well as future potential regulatory changes, with relation to upcoming infrastructure plans, project funding, and operations. This book is an ideal reference for transportation practitioners involved in planning, feasibility studies, consultation and policy for international transportation systems or infrastructure. Academic researchers and graduate students in transportation planning, international relations, and trade will also find this book useful. Compiles in one source up-to-date insights on important public transport themes, issues, and debates Examines a wide range of public transport topics in the multidisciplinary fields of economics, policy, operations, and planning Bridges the gap between scientific research and policy implementation

Author : Juan C. Villa,Maria Boilé,Sotirios Theofanis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Commercial treaties
ISBN : OCLC:1184017868

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International Trade and Transportation Infrastructure Development by Juan C. Villa,Maria Boilé,Sotirios Theofanis Pdf

Author : Eric Bond
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Transportation Infrastructure Investments and Regional Trade Liberalization by Eric Bond Pdf

November 1997 This model predicts that without cooperative infrastructure agreements between countries, there will be underinvestment in those forms of infrastructure in which the investments will have spillover effects to other countries. For a relatively small country, for example, there would tend to be more underinvestment in railroad and highway infrastructure to neighboring countries than there would be in airport and harbor infrastructure (carrying goods to the whole world). Bond examines whether trade liberalization should create a greater incentive for countries to invest in transportation infrastructure. He pays special attention to the case of preferential trade liberalization between neighboring countries, where investments in roads or railroads are specific to the partner country and will thus have spillover effects. The existence of spillovers will lead to gains from cooperative agreements about investment levels. Bond shows that in a small country the incentive to invest in infrastructure depends on the level of the tariff when demand is linear. If protection is in the form of a quota, on the other hand, trade liberalization will increase the optimal infrastructure investment. He shows that in a two-country model with spillovers between countries, the cooperative equilibrium may involve either more or less investment than the noncooperative equilibrium, depending on the pattern of trade between the two countries and the degree of substitutability between investments in the two countries. For a relatively small country, for example, there would be more underinvestment in railroad and highway infrastructure to neighboring countries than there would be in airport and harbor infrastructure. The first type of investment is specific to certain markets and is likely to affect the relative price of goods in those markets. The second type of investment, on the other hand, will send goods to world markets generally, where prices are likely to be relatively unaffected by the investments. Bond also examines the desirability of linking regional trade and infrastructure agreements. The prediction generated by his model is that in the absence of cooperative agreements between countries, there will be underinvestment in those forms of transportation in which the investments will have spillover effects to other countries. Bond identifies two forms of gains from infrastructure agreements: * Internalizing the terms-of-trade effects and thus avoiding the inefficient investment levels that arise in noncooperative choices of investment levels. * Internalizing the effects of the infrastructure investment in the tariff negotiation process, in cases where countries cannot commit to future tariff rates. This paper-a product of the Development Research Group-is part of a larger effort in the group to understand regionalism and development.

Author : Bruce A. Blonigen,Wesley W. Wilson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781785366154

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Handbook of International Trade and Transportation by Bruce A. Blonigen,Wesley W. Wilson Pdf

International trade has grown rapidly over the past half century, accommodated by the transportation industry through concomitant growth and technological change. But while the connection between transport and trade flows is clear, the academic literature often looks at these two issues separately. This Handbook is unique in pulling together the key insights of each field while highlighting what we know about their intersection and ideas for future research in this relatively unexamined but growing area of study.

Author : Joseph F. Francois,Miriam Manchin
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Aeronautics, Commercial
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Institutions, Infrastructure and Trade by Joseph F. Francois,Miriam Manchin Pdf

The authors examine the influence of infrastructure, institutional quality, colonial and geographic context, and trade preferences on the pattern of bilateral trade. They are interested in threshold effects, and so emphasize those cases where bilateral country pairs do not actually trade. The authors depart from the institutions and infrastructure literature in this respect, using selection-based gravity modeling of trade flows. They also depart from this literature by mixing principal components (to condense the institutional and infrastructure measures) with a focus on deviations in the resulting indexes from expected values for given income cohorts to control for multicollinearity. The authors work with a panel of 284,049 bilateral trade flows from 1988 to 2002. Matching bilateral trade and tariff data and controlling for tariff preferences, level of development, and standard distance measures, they find that infrastructure and institutional quality are significant determinants not only of export levels, but also of the likelihood exports will take place at all. Their results support the notion that export performance, and the propensity to take part in the trading system at all, depends on institutional quality and access to well-developed transport and communications infrastructure. Indeed, this dependence is far more important, empirically, than variations in tariffs in explaining sample variations in North-South trade.

Author : Charles Kunaka,Robin Carruthers
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464801440

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Trade and Transport Corridor Management Toolkit by Charles Kunaka,Robin Carruthers Pdf

Trade and transport corridors are fundamental to the overland movement of international trade, particularly for landlocked countries. This book provides tools and techniques for the design of trade and transport corridor projects. It is meant for task managers, policy makers, and corridor service providers.

Author : Leigh B. Boske
Publisher : Lyndon B. Johnson, School of Public Affairs
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : NWU:35556031827041

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Transportation in the Americas by Leigh B. Boske Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264304505

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The Development Dimension Enhancing Connectivity through Transport Infrastructure The Role of Official Development Finance and Private Investment by OECD Pdf

Transport infrastructure is crucial to connect developing countries and help them to boost trade, growth and regional integration. This is because cross-border or long-distance roads and railways as well as international ports and airports are needed to move products and people around in a ...

Author : Douglas H. Brooks,David Hummels
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781953273

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Infrastructure?s Role in Lowering Asia?s Trade Costs by Douglas H. Brooks,David Hummels Pdf

Much of the analysis of infrastructure's impact on trade costs focuses on conditions in developed countries. This book makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding by examining the situation in developing Asia, the world's most populous and fastest growing region. This study analyzes and draws policy implications from infrastructure's central role in lowering Asia's trade costs. Infrastructure is shown to be a cost-effective means of lowering trade costs and thereby promoting regional growth and integration. This book combines thematic and country studies, while breaking new ground in.

Author : International Transport Forum
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789282101780

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17th International ITF/OECD Symposium on Transport Economics and Policy: Benefiting from Globalisation Transport Sector Contribution and Policy Challenges by International Transport Forum Pdf

Opportunities for individuals and businesses to benefit from globalisation are increased by efficient, cost-effective transport networks. A competitive, responsive, well-organised transport sector facilitates trade and creating the conditions for this poses policy challenges that must be tackled.

Author : Anthony Venables,Nuno Limão
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Benchmark
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Geographical Disadvantage by Anthony Venables,Nuno Limão Pdf

"What effect does distance have on costs for economies at different locations? Exports and imports of final and intermediate goods bear transport costs that increase with distance. Production and trade depend on factor endowments and factor intensities as well as on distance and the transport intensities of different goods"--Cover.

Author : Jean-François Arvis,Gaël Raballand,Jean-François Marteau
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business logistics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Cost of Being Landlocked by Jean-François Arvis,Gaël Raballand,Jean-François Marteau Pdf

A large proportion of the least developed countries are landlocked and their access to world markets depends on the availability of a trade corridor and transit systems. Based on empirical evidence from World Bank projects and assessments in Africa, Central Asia, and elsewhere, this paper proposes a microeconomic quantitative description of logistics costs. The paper theoretically and empirically highlights that landlocked economies are primarily affected not only by a high cost of freight services but also by the high degree of unpredictability in transportation time. The main sources of costs are not only physical constraints but widespread rent activities and severe flaws in the implementation of the transit systems, which prevent the emergence of reliable logistics services. The business and donor community should push toward implementation of comprehensive facilitation strategies, primarily at the national level, and the design of robust and resilient transport and transit regimes. A better understanding of the political economy of transit and a review of the implementation successes and failures in this area are needed.

Author : Adebisi Adewole,John J. Struthers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319776521

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Logistics and Global Value Chains in Africa by Adebisi Adewole,John J. Struthers Pdf

Focusing on global value chains and their importance to trade, this edited collection explores the strategic role of logistics and supply chain infrastructure in the development of Africa. Skilled authors present critical analysis of the current state of logistics in Africa, and suggest improvements to policy and practice which address the issue of poor trading relationships. This book will engage entrepreneurs, academics and policy-makers interested in international business, raising awareness of the need for better trade infrastructure in Africa in order to ensure the continent’s economic development.

Author : International Transport Forum
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789282108000

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ITF Transport Outlook 2017 by International Transport Forum Pdf

The ITF Transport Outlook provides an overview of recent trends and near-term prospects for the transport sector at a global level, as well as long-term prospects for transport demand to 2050, for freight (maritime, air and surface), passenger transport (car, rail and air) and CO2 emissions.

Author : Mahir Humbatov,Kazim Sari
Publisher : Mahir Humbatov
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Turkic Council Countries: Infrastructure, Trade, Logistics and Transportation by Mahir Humbatov,Kazim Sari Pdf

The Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States (the Turkic Council - TC) was established in 2009 as an intergovernmental organization to promote multilateral cooperation among Turkic Speaking States. The four founding member states of the TC are Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey. In addition, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan are two possible future members of the council. This study aims to investigate the infrastructural investment, trade, logistics and transportation potential of the mentioned countries as well as elaborate these activities among the TC’s current and possible future members. For this purpose, firstly, present situation of the trade among the Council’s current and possible future members has been examined. At this point, it is made clear that the trade volume among these six states is not as much as expected, but it is open to healing. Later, the opportunities and the last developments that may increase the trade volume among the TC’s current and possible future members in line with advancement of their infrastructural potential are explored. In reality, the geographic location of these states is very good. Namely, they are on the old trade route known as the Silk Road channels; however, this road was not active for a long time. Recently, this ancient trade route between East and West was aimed to be revived by China. Besides, India is keen to develop another approach of the Silk Road under the International North South Transportation Corridor (INSTC) initiative. In fact, these are great opportunities for the TC’s current and possible future members. That is, there is a very large volume of trade between China and Europe, and currently almost all of this trade is done through sea transport. Hence, if even a small part of this trade is transported by the Chinese Initiative of the Silk Road, its contribution to the current and potential future members of the TC and their integration into each other will be great. However, at this point, there are some tasks that current and potential members of the TC must complete to mobilize the Silk Roads. In fact, opening of Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) rail link recently was an important step to make it active, but this is not fully enough. In this work, it is also aimed to set out these tasks from the perspective of each current and potential member. Finally, with the help of this review, the limitations and problems of each state’s infrastructural investment, trade, transport and logistics system have been put forward for improvement studies.