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The effects on international road freight transportation of the protectionist policies concerning the truck manufacturing industry in Belarus: May 15, 2007 09:53
This paper discusses the protectionist policies concerning the truck manufacturing industry in Belarus and its effects on international road freight transportation.

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Tags: belarus, truck, transportation
Independent Regulation in Infrastructure Sectors: The Case for Regulating Local Transportation Markets in Belarus: May 15, 2007 09:53
This paper is dedicated to the problem of independent regulation in infrastructure sectors. The paper argues that independent regulators should be established to regulate local passenger transportation markets.

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Tags: infrastructure, transportation, Belarus,
Bridge connecting Tajikistan and Afghanistan set to open: May 15, 2007 09:54
This photo story is about opening a major new piece in Central Asia’s expanding transportation grid -- a bridge across the Pyanj River connecting Tajikistan and Afghanistan. The United States, which supplied most of the funding and know-how for the project, hopes the bridge will promote regional stabilization.

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Tags: bridge, Tajikistan, transportation
Transition and international integration in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union: May 15, 2007 09:54
This paper investigates the extent of integration of the transition economies into the world economy. We find that south-eastern Europe (SEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) trade significantly less with the world economy than the accession countries. We use a gravity model to explain why this is the case and conclude that the low quality of economic institutions in the CIS, and hence the high risks associated with trade, explain a considerable proportion of the “trade gap” compared to trade levels in industrialised countries. Moreover, the landlocked nature of many CIS countries (and hence high costs of transport and transit) is another reason for the lack of integration. In SEE these factors play a lesser role and the gravity model is unable to fully explain the lack of integration, which we suggest is a legacy of the region’s recent turbulent past. The paper suggests that a combination of improved market access to western markets and efforts to reduce trade and transit barriers within the region provide the best hope to increase economic integration with the world economy in the future.

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Tags: trade, transportation, SEE, CIS, soviet
Regulating Public Automobile Transport: The Major Issues: January 18, 2008 12:13
This paper focuses on the need for independent regulatory bodies to provide sound regulation for local transportation markets.

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Tags: automobile, transportation, reform, Belarus
Independent Regulation in Infrastructure Sectors: The Case for Regulating Local Transportation Markets in Belarus: January 18, 2008 14:23
This paper is dedicated to the problem of independent regulation in infrastructure sectors. It starts out with a general part presenting some of the common arguments for independent regulation. It then turns to describe some current practices in England and Ukraine, and delineates the current situation on the local passenger transportation markets in Belarus. The paper argues that independent regulators should be established to regulate these markets.

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Tags: infrastructure, regulation, transportation, market, Belarus
The effects on international road freight transportation of the protectionist policies concerning the truck manufacturing industry in Belarus: January 18, 2008 16:35
This paper discusses the protectionist policies concerning the truck manufacturing industry in Belarus and its effects on international road freight transportation.

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Tags: international, road, freight, transportation, truck, manufacture, industry, Belarus