By Jean-Francois Arvis, Jean-Francois Marteau, Gael Raballand
ISBN-10: 0821384082
ISBN-13: 9780821384084
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This assertion must be nuanced in the sense that outcomes may have been even worse without investments. However, the expected impact has not materialized yet. 17. Detailed data (at shipment level) were obtained from World Bank projects that used this methodology for appraisal in East and Central Africa. 18. Christ and Ferrantino (2009) demonstrate empirically that road quality and road uncertainty are close substitutes for each other, in the sense that improving either yields payoff rewards of comparable magnitude for the exporter.
Joyce (2001). 8. The presentation in Chapters 2 and 3 will demonstrate that (1) transportation costs are different from transport prices and, from a development perspective, the latter is more important; and (2) macrodata are inadequate to convey a sense of the extent of the transport constraint. 9. See, for instance, Faye, Sachs, and Snow (2004) for a discussion on the various types of dependence. 10. Transit procedure is per se a customs procedure. Transit processes seek to implement freedom of transit (Article V of the GATT) while safeguarding the transit country from potential fiscal loss by ascertaining that goods in transit actually exit the country.
2 Operational Responsibilities and Costs (1) transportation costs transporter (2) other logistics costs (overheads) freight forwarder shipper or consignee (3) hedging costs Source: Authors. 2 The Three Components of Total Logistics Costs C (1) Transportation Costs = + (2) Other Logistics Costs + (3) Delayed Hedging Costs = Fees paid for actual transit transportation* services to truckers or rail operators = (a) Transit overheads: fees, procedures, facilitation payments. + (b) Fixed costs of shipments = (a) In-transit moving inventory costs (costs of goods maintained on the road while already paid for, for example, cost of average transit time) + (b) Induced costs to hedge unreliability plus inventory and warehousing costs or to shift to a faster, more expensive mode of transportation Source: Authors.