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Contents
6.3 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 8.1 8.2
SADC Cost Recovery Mechanism Railway Border Performance Indicators Contrasting Railway Concessions in Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal Rail Container Services to Central Asia Increased Competition Pushes Kenya to Higher Unit-Value Exports and Air Freight Institutional Arrangements for Managing the Paraguay–Paraná River Waterway (“Hidrovia”) International Waterway Commissions National Trade and Transport Facilitation Committees FastPath Shows Corridor Performance Strengths and Weaknesses
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Figures 1.1 2.1 3.1 3.2 4.1 4.2 4.3 8.1
The Transit System and Its Components An Extended Chain of Operations Market Shares of Corridors Serving Burkina Faso, 1991–2004 Vulnerability of the Supply Chain to Rent-seeking Activities The Transit Regime: International and National Transits and Final Clearance The TIR Operation: Sequence of Procedures Conceptual Difference of Bond Management between TIR and European Common Transit Typical Output of a UNESCAP Corridor Performance Monitoring
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Africa Region Latin America Region Europe and Central Asia Region South Asia Region East Asia Region Middle East and North Africa Region
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Maps A6.1 A6.2 A6.3 A6.4 A6.5 A6.6
Tables 1.1 2.1
Landlocked Developing Countries by Region Poorly Performing Landlocked Countries on the Logistics Performance Index, by Region
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