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Regional Integration
Guidelines on Vehicle Overload Control in Eastern and Southern Africa

Endemic overloading of commercial vehicles has led to the deterioration of roads in most Sub-Saharan African countries. Unless the problem is taken seriously, there is no doubt that it will negate…

March 01, 2010

Regional Integration
Gazing into the Mirror: Operational Internal Control in Cameroon Customs

Cameroon is a model example of a developing country facing the challenges of trade facilitation, in light of its geographic location within Central Africa. Close to 20 percent of its Customs revenues…

January 01, 2009

Regional Integration
Lessons of Corridor Performance Measurement

This paper presents the methodological lessons of several corridor performance measurements carried out in Africa. Based on current experience, the authors conclude that while road driver trip…

May 01, 2008

Regional Integration
Port and Maritime Transport Challenges in West and Central Africa

This Working Paper presents the current trends in maritime transport and port sectors in West and Central Africa (WCA), and proposes several policy recommendations to improve maritime transport and…

April 30, 2007

Regional Integration
Review of Selected Railway Concessions in Sub-Saharan Africa

May 31, 2006

Regional Integration
Guidelines For Land Road Border Stations

November 04, 2005

Regional Integration
Baseline Survey of Key Non-Physical Barriers along the Northern Corridor

The objective of the study is developing and implementing sound policies that will facilitate cost-effective transport operations along the Northern Corridor. This is to be achieved through the…

October 01, 2005

Regional Integration
Non-Motorized Transport in African Cities -- Lessons from Experience in Kenya and Tanzania

This document is based on a program of Non-Motorized Transport (NMT) Infrastructure and Services in Kenya (Nairobi and Eldoret), and Tanzania (Temeke, ward of Dar es Salaam and Morogoro). It aims to…

August 30, 2005

Regional Integration
Terms of Reference

April 30, 2005

Regional Integration
Best Practices in Corridor Mnagament

January 31, 2005

Regional Integration
Facilitation of Transport and Trade in Sub-Saharan Africa -- A Review of International Legal Instruments -- Treaties, Conventions, Protocols, Decisions, Directives

Facilitating trade flows between countries belonging to the same sub-region does not only require adequate transport infrastructure, or the availability of competitive and reliable transport services…

April 30, 2004

Regional Integration
Transport and Trade Facilitation -- East and Southern Africa

June 30, 2003

Regional Integration
Concessionning of the Ifrikya Railway: A Case Study

The case study of the concessioning of the Ifrikya railway is based in part on several recent actual case studies on railway concessioning in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, several features of the…

May 01, 2003

Regional Integration
A Railway Concessioning Toolkit: Application to African Networks

The toolkit presented here is intended to provide African countries, in summary form, with an overview of the experience to date with railway concessioning in Sub-Saharan Africa. The reader will note…

April 01, 2003

Regional Integration
Nepad Short- Term Action Plan Infrastructure

April 30, 2002

Regional Integration
Trade and Transport Facilitation -- A Toolkit for Audit, Analysis and Remedial Action

November 30, 2001

Regional Integration
The Abidjan-Ouagadougo Railway Concession

Since the 1980s, most Sub-Saharan African railways have been experiencing a severe crisis: declining traffic and revenue, lack of market orientation and poor service, continued operation of high-loss…

June 01, 1998

Regional Integration
Multiple Ports of Call versus Hub-and-Spoke: Containerized Maritime Trade between West Africa and Europe

Although traffic volumes in many Sub-Saharan countries have increased significantly during this decade, containerized maritime trade in West Africa is still in its infancy. Intermodalism, which is…

January 01, 1998

Railways
Concessioning of Rail Transport -- A New Approach to Restructuring Railways in Sub-Saharan Africa

As with many railways in developing and developed, countries, Sub-Saharan Africa's railways are now at a crossroads. Facing increased competition, the African railways will play an important role in…

July 01, 1997

Regional Integration
Trade and Transport Facilitation- A Review of Current Issues and Operational Experience

This joint World Bank/UNCTAD review proposes ways and means to improve the competitiveness of a country's international trade by: increasing the quality and reducing the associated costs of…

May 31, 1996

Regional Integration
Promoting Policy Reforms for Effective Transport Services in COMESA Countries

Concerned by the poor state of the road network in most of its member countries, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has been promoting reforms to help regional integration for…

May 01, 1996