dam a22 2 4500 569257247 CHVBK 20200911033113.0 cr || |||||||| 190724s2019 sz om 00 eng d (IDSSG)001056654 SzZuIDS HSG ger rda 330 13613583101 edok Falk Lukas Verfasser aut Transport Costs in Ethiopia the determinants of transport costs within Ethiopia and how they limit the country's ability to benefit from globalization Lukas Falk St. Gallen 2019 1 Online-Ressource Text txt rdacontent/ger Computermedien c rdamedia/ger Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier/ger Bachelor-Arbeit / Universität St. Gallen Bachelorarbeit Universität St. Gallen 2019 Ethiopia, one of the least developed countries in the world, suffers from an inadequate road network. The lack of paved roads and roads in general create trade frictions, in the form of higher transport costs, that prevent the country from fully benefitting from globalization. This paper aims to estimate to what extent transport costs, induced by different road surfaces and the lack of road accessibility, affect domestic trade costs in Ethiopia. By analyzing commodity price panel data of imported goods from the Ethiopian Socioeconomic Survey of the years 2014 and 2016, and Geographic Information System road data, the marginal effect of different road surfaces and road accessibility is estimated. The results indicate that domestic trade costs increase with distance, albeit to different extents on either asphalt, gravel or dry-weather roads. Road accessibility is a relatively significant contributor to trade costs. Furthermore, people living in small towns pay a premium for imported goods and areas linked with longer distances of unpaved roads are also the areas where people need to travel, on average, farther to access the road itself. Transportkosten (DE-588)4060690-9 gnd Straßenzustand (DE-588)4183601-7 gnd Infrastruktur (DE-588)4026944-9 gnd Außenhandel (DE-588)4003832-4 gnd Äthiopien (DE-588)4000639-6 gnd Trading costs; domestic trade Hochschulschrift gnd-content Gottlieb Charles Akademischer Betreuer dgs http://www1.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/SysLkpByIdentifier/13613583101/$FILE/13613583101.pdf Volltext für Angehörige der Universität St. Gallen BK020353 XK020053 XK020000 IDSSG 100 1- Falk Lukas Verfasser aut IDSSG 490 0- Bachelor-Arbeit / Universität St. Gallen IDSSG 700 1- Gottlieb Charles Akademischer Betreuer dgs IDSSG 856 4- http://www1.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/SysLkpByIdentifier/13613583101/$FILE/13613583101.pdf Volltext für Angehörige der Universität St. Gallen