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MAP 5.2
Smooth Border Crossings Would Give Lagging Border Regions a Better Chance of Benefiting from Spillover Connectivity: Travel Time in Hours to a City of More Than 500,000 Inhabitants, with Zero-Hour Border Crossings IBRD 38184
NOVEMBER 2010
ESTIMATED TRAVEL TIME (HOURS) WITH NO BORDER 1 This map was produced by the Map Design Unit of The World Bank. The boundaries, colors, denominations and any other information shown on this map do not imply, on the part of The World Bank Group, any judgment on the legal status of any territory, or any endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries.
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Source: Staff GIS analysis; sources detailed in appendix.
TABLE 5.4
MENA’s 2006–08 Logistics Performance Index (LPI) Benchmarked
Djibouti Algeria Syrian Arab Republic Yemen, Rep. Sub-Saharan Africa average Egypt, Arab Rep. Lebanon Morocco Lower-middle-income average Iran, Islamic Rep. Latin America and the Caribbean average Tunisia Upper-middle-income average Jordan
Overall LPI
Efficiency of customs and other border procedures
Quality of transport and IT infrastructures
Logistics competence
Domestic transportation costs
1.94 2.06 2.09 2.29
1.92 1.83 2.17 2.18
1.64 1.60 1.91 2.08
2.00 1.92 1.80 2.22
2.80 3.17 2.89 2.67
2.35 2.37 2.37 2.38
2.21 2.00 2.14 2.20
2.11 2.08 2.17 2.33
2.33 2.38 2.40 2.13
2.98 2.83 3.40 2.38
2.46 2.51
2.26 2.44
2.30 2.50
2.38 2.69
3.04 2.93
2.57 2.76
2.38 2.83
2.38 2.83
2.52 2.43
2.97 3.20
2.76 2.89
2.60 2.62
2.55 2.62
2.72 3.00
2.90 2.92
Source: http://info.worldbank.org/etools/tracksurvey, accessed March 2009.