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What Factors Drive transport and Logistics Costs in Africa ?

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We analyze the domestic transport and logistics costs of importing a 20-foot container into Africa. We run regressions on a panel of 50 African countries for the period 2006-2014 using the RE-2SLS estimator. Distance from port of arrival to the point of delivery is an important explanatory factor of cost. Time-varying variables yield additional and valuable information. For the 2010-2014 sub-period, the simulations suggest that reducing processing times and adjusting real exchange rates to PPP equilibrium levels would save 12% of the cost to import for North Africa and 37% for Central Africa.
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hal-03198081 , version 1 (14-04-2021)

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Patrick Plane. What Factors Drive transport and Logistics Costs in Africa ?. 2021. ⟨hal-03198081⟩

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