Improving Trade and Transport for Landlocked Developing Countries : A Ten-Year Review
Landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) are completely dependent on their transit neighbors infrastructure and administrative procedures to transport their goods to port. This publication provides a comprehensive ten-year review in order to assess...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/11/24254032/improving-trade-transport-landlocked-developing-countries-ten-year-review http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21800 |
| Summary: | Landlocked developing countries (LLDCs)
are completely dependent on their transit neighbors
infrastructure and administrative procedures to transport
their goods to port. This publication provides a
comprehensive ten-year review in order to assess the
progress made in improving access of LLDCs to global
markets, identify the remaining challenges faced by LLDCs,
and present improved and innovative ways to overcome them.
This publication is based on the practical knowledge from
implementing the Almaty Program policies, shared by both of
our institutions. It provides a snapshot of the economic
trends in LLDCs, with regard to trade costs, connectivity
constraints and trade diversification. It reviews the key
access policies in the Almaty Program of Action framework
that include infrastructure, transport and logistics
services, regional integration, trade and transit
facilitation. It combines data and substantial feedback from
implemented projects and policy changes. The focus of the
document is general in scope and does not include detailed
economic or policy analysis of all the potential components
of reforms. The publication is organized as follows:
Chapter1: Economics of Landlockedness; Chapter 2:
Connectivity Constraints; Chapter 3: Hinterland Connections;
Chapter 4: Transit and Trade Facilitation, Regional
Integration; Chapter 5: Physical Connectivity, Corridors.
This document is based primarily on the experience of
project implementation by the World Bank, and on analytical
work on trade corridors and LLDCs, including reports and
presentations on progress in implementing the Almaty Program
of Action. |
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