What are the main determinants of transport costs: network access or competition among transport providers? The focus in the transport sector has often been on improving the coverage of "hard" infrastructure, whereas in reality the cost of transporting goods is quite sensitive to the extent of competition among transport providers and scale economies in the freight transport industry, creating monopolistic behavior and circular causation between lower...
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2009/11/01
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS5133
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2010/07/01
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Disclosed
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Explaining high transport costs within Malawi - bad roads or lack of trucking competition ?
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transport cost