Transport Development in Southern Africa
Author : G. H. Pirie
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 22,30 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Railroads
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Author : G. H. Pirie
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 22,30 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Railroads
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Author : Gavin Grant Maasdorp
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,29 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Africa, Southern
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Book contains maps indicating main railway routes, some roads and road projects, inland waterways, ports and air traffic routes.
Author : Supee Teravaninthorn
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 31,31 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0821376551
Transport prices for most African landlocked countries range from 15 to 20 percent of import costs. This is approximately two to three times more than in most developed countries. It is well known that weak infrastructure can account for low trade performance. Thus, it becomes necessary to understand what types of regional transport services operate in landlocked African nations and it is critical to identify the regulation disparities and provision anomalies that hurt infrastructure efficiency, even when the physical infrastructure, such as a road transport corridor, exists. Transport Prices and Costs in Africa analyzes the various reasons for poor transport performance seen widely throughout Africa and provides a compelling case for a number of national and regional reforms that are vital to the effort to address the underlying causes of high transport prices and costs and service unpredictability seen in Africa. The book will greatly help supervisory authorities throughout the region develop and implement a comprehensive transport policy that will facilitate long-term growth.
Author : Southern Africa Consulting Group
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Page : pages
File Size : 21,8 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Telecommunication
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Author : John Edward Glab
Publisher :
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 43,35 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Author : Cheryl Potgieter
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Rural transportation
ISBN : 9780796921680
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Author : Raj Bardouille
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 15,91 MB
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1443815292
Transport is an essential service that must contribute to national development objectives in health, education, agriculture and other sectors in guiding sub-Saharan Africa out of poverty. Developing policies aimed at providing safe, reliable and affordable transport infrastructure and services can and will make a substantial and sustainable contribution to eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, improving health care and reducing HIV/AIDS. Although transport is identified as a priority in poverty reduction strategies, it has not generally been adequately addressed. Global responses tend to focus on rural transport infrastructure—principally roads—with little attention given to sub-sectors such as rivers, lakes, and railroads; and important geographical and econological differences are ignored. The needs of the urban poor have been weakly addressed, as have the access and mobility needs of women, the disabled and other disadvantaged groups, while strategies for adapting transport to agricultural production/distribution or social services (e.g. health and education) have not been adequately developed. A systematic approach to the development of sound, comprehensive transport sector programs that provide clear guidance on what is to be done is much needed. This volume—the product of an expert workshop held at Cornell University’s Institute for African Development in May, 2007—provides accounts of an array of African operational spaces in which transport is relevant to the Millennium Development Goals. It addresses many heretofore ignored dimesions of transport—mobility issues of the urban poor, of women and children, and issues of access to employment, education and health services. It provides an alignment of transport with the MDGs in what proves to be fertile ground for research with important messages for policy makers and consequences for policy.
Author : Southern African Development Community
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,7 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Communication and traffic
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Author : Ferdinand Vorster Viljoen
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 27,58 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Transportation
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Author : Piet Buys
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 40,46 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Recent research suggests that isolation from regional and international markets has contributed significantly to poverty in many Sub-Saharan African countries. Numerous empirical studies identify poor transport infrastructure and border restrictions as significant deterrents to trade expansion. In response, the African Development Bank has proposed an integrated network of functional roads for the subcontinent. Drawing on new econometric results, the authors quantify the trade-expansion potential and costs of such a network. They use spatial network analysis techniques to identify a network of primary roads connecting all Sub-Saharan capitals and other cities with populations over 500,000. The authors estimate current overland trade flows in the network using econometrically-estimated gravity model parameters, road transport quality indicators, actual road distances, and estimates of economic scale for cities in the network. Then they simulate the effect of feasible continental upgrading by setting network transport quality at a level that is functional, but less highly developed than existing roads in countries like South Africa and Botswana. The authors assess the costs of upgrading with econometric evidence from a large World Bank database of road project costs in Africa. Using a standard approach to forecast error estimation, they derive a range of potential benefits and costs. Their baseline results indicate that continental network upgrading would expand overland trade by about $250 billion over 15 years, with major direct and indirect benefits for the rural poor. Financing the program would require about $20 billion for initial upgrading and $1 billion annually for maintenance. The authors conclude with a discussion of supporting institutional arrangements and the potential cost of implementing them.