Regulatory frameworks on logistics regulations are often opaque, especially in developing countries, because of the … complex nature of logistics services. World Bank client countries have faced difficulty finding the issues that hinder them … from improving logistics competence. Therefore, it is beneficial to understand how the logistics service industry is …

logistics services, their trade dimension, and how regulatory issues act as perhaps one of the most significant barriers to … competitiveness. The paper discusses recent developments and the role and benefits of logistics services and argues that from a trade … agreement standpoint, logistics is a network industry that ultimately provides one service to a final client. It analyzes …

This paper shows that networked trade in parts and components is more sensitive to the importing country's logistics … around 45 percent, which suggests that the effect is quantitatively important. In addition, the analysis finds that logistics … of international production networks by helping improve trade logistics performance …

Do better international logistics reduce trade costs, raising a developing country's exports? Yes, but the magnitude of … multilateral resistance to a comprehensive new international logistics index. A one-standard deviation improvement in logistics is …

Africa, Central Asia, and elsewhere, this paper proposes a microeconomic quantitative description of logistics costs. The …, which prevent the emergence of reliable logistics services. The business and donor community should push toward …

various proxies, including indices based on expert judgment in some cases. This paper focuses on logistics friction and draws … on a data set recently compiled by the World Bank with specific quantitative metrics of logistics performance in terms of … time, cost, and variability in time. It finds that the new variables that relate directly to logistics performance have a …