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Jean-François Arvis International Trade Department The World Bank Washington June 13, 2013

Connecting Landlocked Developing Countries: What have we learned during the Almaty Programme of Action period ?. Jean-François Arvis International Trade Department The World Bank Washington June 13, 2013. How to assess the impact of the APoA 2004-2013?. Several perspectives

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Jean-François Arvis International Trade Department The World Bank Washington June 13, 2013

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  1. Connecting Landlocked Developing Countries: What have we learned during the Almaty Programme of Action period? Jean-François Arvis International Trade Department The World Bank Washington June 13, 2013

  2. How to assess the impact of the APoA 2004-2013? Several perspectives • Macro trends: trade, growth • Changes in access costs and connectivity • Effective action on the ground to address sources of access costs and reduced connectivity.

  3. Trends (2000-2011) Revenue per capita in LLDC: • From 11.5 % to 15.6 % of world average • Annual growth 3.8% in LLDC (2.1% SSA) against 3.4% in transit countries, and 1.5% world average Trade: • LLDCs from 0.5% to 1.1% of world trade • Transit countries from 10.3% to 21.7% => NO BETTER TRENDS THAN TRANSIT COUNTRIES

  4. Trade trends

  5. Trade Performance Trade growth 2000-2011 (percent per year)

  6. Trade Openness (percent)

  7. Trade costs and logistics performance • Trade costs measure the “wedge” between international trade and domestic consumption = ad valorem price equivalent that explain reduction of bilateral trade flows as compared with domestic markets of exporter and importer = caused by distance but also endogenous factors such as connectivity, logistics, and trade facilitation. • National logistics performance measured by Logistics Performance Index (LPI)

  8. Trade costs:Evidence of LLDCs disadvantage

  9. No cost of landlockednessfor rich landlocked countries

  10. Logistics Performance

  11. Logistics performance by regions

  12. Connecting LLDCs • Complex supply chains in transit system • Inefficiencies and fragmentation => logistics costs Logistics Costs= Cost+ Time+ Reliability

  13. Urban myths • Transportation costs in LLDCs can represent 30% of import value in certain countries. • Delays to import are exceeding 100 days in several landlocked countries. • The main sources of costs and delays are the obstacles en route or at borders or bad infrastructure.

  14. Costs = out of pocket expenses for freight • In the absence of market distortion (e.g. freight allocation system), … • road freight is relatively homogenous worldwide (1 to 1.5 USD per km) • But : • Imbalance • Legal and illegal rents plus overheads seeking activities (up to X2) • Other inefficiencies (e.g. idle time) • Market intervention (e.g. Central Africa ) (X2) • Transport markup of being LLDC as compared with transit no more than 5%

  15. Time • Much less corridor time than transoceanic time • Lead time on corridors less than 15 days average (more in Central and Eastern Africa) • 4-6 weeks for transoceanic (breakdown in cost would be more even) • Most delays happen in ports and in transit countries.

  16. Reliability: Looking beyond averages • The spread of delays of transit containers in the port of Dar Es Salam Address sources of fragmentation and unreliability

  17. Logistics Costs and their impact; e.g. Kazakhstan

  18. Transit system Soft and hard infrastructure and implementation mechanisms

  19. What has improved • Infrastructure: • All weather connection for all LLDCs • Rehabilitation and maintenance • Delays in ports • Rarely more than 2 weeks (6 weeks 10 years ago) • But not APoA specific: measure taken for coastal countries, not transit. • IT and trade facilitation: • Border infrastructure • IT systems (e.g. Asycuda) • International legal instruments (no obvious gaps) • Data collection by corridor (SSTAP, CAREC, IRU…)

  20. What has not really improved • Customs reforms in the smaller States (mixed success) • Some success stories with border posts (but over-emphasized). • Market structure of trucking (virtually an ignored area) • Railways (mixed) • Transit system (some attention but often wrong focus or wrong ideas) • Corridor management institutions

  21. Some successes • Malaba (Kenya-Uganda): 2day -> 2 hours at border • Eurasian Customs Union: one border and $500 less per trip • Cotonou (Benin-Niger): cleansing trucks in ports reduces delays from weeks to days • TIM in Central America: the only successful implementation of regional transit out of EU

  22. Where to push • Transit regimes, tremendous potential in regionally integrated system (one procedure one bond). Only two designs to consider: • TIR for loosely integrated areas • EU Common transit for highly integrated regions • Trucking agreements => Very much to do with deeper integration in sub-regions

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