of the transportation sector for future growth is discerned. Historical detractors are noted and drivers for the future … important transportation hub between Europe and Asia. The value of the paper is in noting the push of many NGOs towards regional … integration, which may be best approached, we suggest, from an initial investment in its transportation infrastructure.  …

We study the effects of large transportation costs on economic development. We argue that the Midwest and the Northeast … characteristics with today’s developing countries and that transportation costs were large and then came way down. To disentangle the … effects of the large reduction in transportation costs from those of other changes that happened during 1840?1860, we build a …