2003
DOI: 10.1093/jae/12.suppl_2.ii153
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The Liberalisation, De-regulation and Privatisation of the Transport Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa: Experiences, Challenges and Opportunities

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“…The railway system is small and ineffi cient; transport costs are on average about 200 percent higher than in Southeast Asia. It is estimated that Africa has fewer roads than a country like Poland (Mwase, 2003). Compared with other regions, such as Asia, where most of the population is concentrated in the coastal areas with easy access to domestic and international markets, Africa's population is more evenly distributed across the continent, with only 19 percent of the population living in coastal areas (Sachs, 2005).…”
Section: The Role Of Infrastructurementioning
confidence: 99%
“…The railway system is small and ineffi cient; transport costs are on average about 200 percent higher than in Southeast Asia. It is estimated that Africa has fewer roads than a country like Poland (Mwase, 2003). Compared with other regions, such as Asia, where most of the population is concentrated in the coastal areas with easy access to domestic and international markets, Africa's population is more evenly distributed across the continent, with only 19 percent of the population living in coastal areas (Sachs, 2005).…”
Section: The Role Of Infrastructurementioning
confidence: 99%
“…• increasing the extent and speed of disease transmission • increasing out-or in-migration Going beyond conventional approaches, we can improve understanding and management of such dynamics -often indirect, complex, and interlinked -by incorporating insights from history, geography, anthropology and political economy about how "space", and hence transport, is constituted by interlinked social, economic, political and cultural relations (Massey 1994;Lee and Wills 1997;Peet 1998). The following sections discuss examples, focusing on the politics of investment, uneven development, political symbolism, and social relations.…”
Section: New Perspectivesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Framed by a broader agenda for road infrastructure investment and the encouragement of private sector performance (hence the "adjustment" policies that mainstreamed African transport economics in the last two decades of the twentieth century; see Mwase 2003), Rawlings' administrations introduced a range of reforms that favoured the private transport sector. A divestment of state-run bus operations was coupled with a favourably adjusted import policy for second-hand passenger vehicles, an increased availability of spare parts, an almost complete suspension of controls on transport fares and a massive rehabilitation of road infrastructures (Fouracre et al 1994;Gyimah-Boadi 1994: 132-133).…”
Section: Negotiating Economic Changementioning
confidence: 99%