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Transport Corridors in Africa

Transport Corridors in Africa

Lamarque, Hugh
Nugent, Paul
Lamarque, Hugh

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1847012949
ISBN13: 9781847012944
Publisher: Boydell Pr
Published: Aug 23 2022
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
In-depth examination of the inherent tensions and dynamics of transport corridors in Africa: between short-term optics and long-term durability; between regional integration and national interest; between the facilitation of trade and the generation of corridor revenue.

The image of the corridor, a central pathway of road and rail carving its way through Africa's interior, has guided the coordination of transport and trade developments on the continent in recent decades. Existing analysis of the Corridor - a label with a great capacity to change shape, guiding funding and infrastructural priorities at different times and in different settings - tends to be presentist, technical, and conveyed in the language of transport economics. The chapters collected here showcase a more varied approach, offering perspectives from academics and policy-makers coming from a range of disciplinary backgrounds. They capture the varied forms of the corridor concept (developmental, transport, and trade corridors), the multiplicity of actors (including China and the European Union), as well as the different permutations of the infrastructure itself, in corridors linking coastal states and in others that link coastal states with the hinterland. The breadth of cases allows for a comparative perspective of East, West, and Southern Africa, as well as the basis of comparisons outside of the continent in Europe, South Asia, and elsewhere.

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