Trains, Trade, and Transaction Costs : How Does Domestic Trade by Rail Affect Market Prices of Malawi Agricultural Commodities?
We measure the impact of low-cost transport by rail in Malawi on the dispersion of agricultural commodity prices across markets by exploiting the quasi-experimental design of the nearly total collapse of domestic transport by rail in January 2003 due to the destruction of a railway bridge at Riviriv...
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
2019
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32780 |