The Permanent Effects of Transportation Revolutions in Poor Countries: Evidence from Africa

By R. Jedwab, Alexander Moradi. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016

265 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/5e637d22435cc34e1cf8c179d1e10ac62f32d7c2

Citations in the corpus

• Transport Policies and Development (2015, unknown): “In Ghana and Kenya, railway access has had a positive impact on economic development both in the short and in the long run (Jedwab, Kerby, & Moradi, in press; Jedwab & Moradi, 2016).”
• What Can Be Learned from Spatial Economics? (2019, unknown): “This suggests that the transport networks designed during the colonial period still shape the intensity and nature of trade flows in Africa (see also Jedwab and Moradi 2016).”
• Rural road infrastructure & agricultural production: Evidence from India (2021, unknown): “…Atkin (2016) examine the effects of expanding India’s highway network on trade costs and subsequently, farmers’ revenue volatility and portfolio choice; Jedwab and Moradi (2016) estimate the effect of colonial railroads in Ghana on the spatial distribution and aggregate level of economic activity;…”