Rural Road Investment Efficiency : Lessons from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and Uganda
This report is the second in a series of studies on transport and aid effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa. It follows a study on transport costs and prices along the main international trade corridors (Teravaninthorn and Raballand 2008). One of the...
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World Bank
2012
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| Summary: | This report is the second in a series of
studies on transport and aid effectiveness in Sub-Saharan
Africa. It follows a study on transport costs and prices
along the main international trade corridors (Teravaninthorn
and Raballand 2008). One of the principal findings of the
research on international corridors in Africa was that
trucking market structure and regulation differ widely among
sub-regions in Sub-Saharan Africa; therefore, transport
prices (but not necessarily transport costs)1 differ greatly
among sub-regions and corridors. The trucking environment
and market structure in West and Central Africa are
characterized by cartels offering low transport quality,
whereas in East Africa, the trucking environment is more
competitive and the market is more mature. Much of the
transport price burden along African corridors seems to
depend on the political economy of freight logistics. |
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