| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP15354 |
| DP15354 Priority Roads: the Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads | |
| Roberto Bonfatti; Yuan Gu; Steven Poelhekke | |
| 发表日期 | 2020-10-11 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well placed to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in West Africa in 1965-2014. Controlling for geography and comparative advantage, we find that autocracies focused more than democracies on connecting metal and mineral deposits to ports, resulting in more interior-to-coast networks. This deposit-to-port bias was only present for deposits located on the elite's ethnic homeland, suggesting that Africa's interior-to-coast roads were the result of ethnic favoritism by autocracies. |
| 主题 | Development Economics ; International Trade and Regional Economics |
| 关键词 | Political economy Democracy Infrastructure Natural resources Development |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp15354 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/544335 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Roberto Bonfatti,Yuan Gu,Steven Poelhekke. DP15354 Priority Roads: the Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads. 2020. |
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