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来源IDDP15354
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
URLhttps://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
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Roberto Bonfatti,Yuan Gu,Steven Poelhekke. DP15354 Priority Roads: the Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads. 2020.
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