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The electric vehicle revolution: Economic and policy implications for natural resource exporters in developing countriesThe emergence of a mass market for electric vehicles (EVs) offers considerable development opportunities for resource exporters, given their intensive raw material requirements, including for cobalt, nickel, lithium, copper, aluminium, and manganese...
Transportation Raw materials Resource curseWorking Paper
The social profitability of rural roads in a small open economy: Do urban agglomeration economies matter?In the presence of agglomeration economies, the effects of a rural roads programme depend not only on the reduction in transportation costs, but also on the form of labour mobility...
Rural roads Profitability TransportationWorking Paper
The relationship between transport accessibility and employment durationThe purpose of this research is to investigate whether transport accessibility influences the employment duration of individuals in South Africa...
Employment Employment duration EqualityWorking Paper
Roads and jobs in EthiopiaWe look at how improving roads can affect jobs and structural transformation...
Ethiopia Roads Structural transformationBook Chapter
How trucking services have improved and may contribute to economic development: The case of East AfricaFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
Trade facilitation TransportationWorking Paper
How trucking services have improved and may contribute to economic development: The case of East AfricaIn East Africa, there have been numerous concerns over logistics efficiency. Among them, the regional integration of the trucking industry is perceived as a major problem...
Trade facilitation TransportationWorking Paper
Modelling growth scenarios for biofuels in South Africa’s transport sectorSouth Africa has a nascent biofuels industry and emerging regulatory framework, and although water scarcity limits local supply potential, that of the southern African region appears substantial...
Economic biology Supply and demand TransportationWorking Paper
The Effects of Rural Land Right Security on Labour Structural Transformation and Urbanization: Evidence from ThailandThis paper attempts to contribute to the understanding of the impacts of secure rural agricultural land rights on labour structural transformation from agriculture to non-agriculture as well as on urbanization, with a specific focus on Thailand...
Labor Land tenure Rural developmentJournal Article
The impact of transport costs on new venture internationalisationThis paper investigates the importance of transport costs in new venture internationalisation, i.e. of firms that start exporting before they are 3 years of age...
International business enterprises International trade TransportationJournal Article
The Location of Manufacturing Exporters in Africa: Empirical EvidenceThe costs of accessing and using a port/export hub should be high on the list of priorities for export promotion agencies in Africa...
Manufacturing industries TransportationJournal Article
The Determinants of Regional Manufactured Exports from a Developing CountryIn this article, the question of the location of exporters of manufactured goods within a country is investigated...
Manufacturing TransportationJournal Article
Pacific Islands' Bilateral Trade: The Role of Remoteness and of Transport CostsPart of Journal Special Issue Policy Arena: Small Island Developing States
Econometric models Infrastructure (Economics) International tradeJournal Article
Small Island States Development Challenges: IntroductionPart of Journal Special Issue Policy Arena: Small Island Developing States
Economic assistance and foreign aid Emigrant remittances Emigration and immigrationWorking Paper
Geography and Development in Africa: Overview and Implications for Regional CooperationGeography causes African countries to experience a ‘proximity gap’. To overcome this gap a ‘big push’ may be needed in infrastructure...
Economic integration Infrastructure (Economics) Internal migrationWorking Paper
Pacific Islands' Bilateral Trade: The Role of Remoteness and of Transport CostsBilateral trade of geographically distant countries is likely to be negatively affected by the distance separating them from their trading partners and positively affected by their remoteness, defined as the average weighted distance between two coun...
Econometric models Infrastructure (Economics) International tradeWorking Paper
Development of Financial Intermediation and the Dynamics of Rural-Urban Inequality: China, 1978-98Using China as a test case, this paper empirically investigates how the development of financial intermediation affects rural-urban income disparity (RUID)...
Central banking Equity Housing