Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Landlocked Developing Countries and Trade Corridors: An Overview -- A Renewed Development Priority -- Transit Neighbors and Trade Corridors -- A New Conceptual Framework: Transit Systems and Corridor Performance -- Structure of This Volume -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 The LLDC Access Problem and the Performance of Trade Corridors -- Economic Potential of LLDCs -- The Corridor Supply Chain and Its Bottlenecks -- Unreliability of LLDC Corridors Carries a High Cost -- Market Structure and Competition in Logistics Services -- Unnecessary Overhead and Informal Payments -- Investing in Infrastructure: Does It Actually Promote Trade? -- Supply Chain Linkages: Exports vs. Imports, Extra- vs. Intra-regional Trade -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 The Complex Political Economy of Trade Corridors -- LLDC Relationship with the Transit Country: Beyond Dependence -- Transit Corridors: A History of Public-Private Partnership with Mutual Benefits -- How LLDC Traffic Benefits Transit Countries -- Landlocked Countries Aspire to a Transit Role -- Transit Systems: From Vicious to Virtuous Cycles -- Note -- References -- Chapter 4 Moving Goods on Corridors: Transit Regimes -- Role of the Transit Regime -- The Basics of Transit -- Key Concepts and Practices in Transit -- Regionally Integrated Transit and Carnet Systems -- Global Standards and International Legal Agreements Relevant to Transit -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Improving Transit Regimes and International Cooperation -- Implementing Transit Regimes in Developing Regions -- Integration of Transit: An Unreached Goal -- Too Many Legal Instruments? -- Reengineering the Transit Regime: A Priority for LLDC Corridors.

Pilot Transit Regime Improvement Program: The Douala Corridor -- Technology Helps Manage Transit Trade -- Conclusions: Progress Toward Global Standards -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 Improving Road Freight Transport -- Importance of Road Transport in Transit Countries -- Structure of Road Freight Industries -- Contracting Between Clients and Trucking Companies -- Procedures for Movement of Trucks and Drivers Across Borders -- Quota Systems and Bilateral Transit Agreements -- Facilitating Truck Movement Through Transit Countries -- Recommendations -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7 Alternative Transport Modes and the Role of Logistics Intermediaries -- Rail Transport: Underused Potential -- A Regional Perspective on Railway Services to LLDCs -- Air Freight: A Niche Market for LLDCs -- An Overview of Inland Waterway Transport -- Development of Logistics Services -- Recommendations -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8 Managing Trade Corridors -- Four Corridor Management Models -- Efficient Corridor Management -- Monitoring the Performance of Trade Corridors -- Total Logistics Costs on a Transit Corridor -- Designing the Monitoring System for Corridor Performance -- Corridor Monitoring in Practice: Observatories in Africa -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9 Bringing Together the Solutions -- Building Trust -- Making Transportation and Logistics Services Work for Trade -- Redefining or Improving Transit Systems -- Developing Global Initiatives to Promote Common Approaches for Redesigning Transit Regimes and Monitoring Trade Corridor Performance -- Note -- Appendix 1 Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs), Their Transit Neighbors, and Main Trade Corridors, by Region -- Appendix 2 Assessment and Policy Recommendations by Region -- Eastern and Southern Africa -- Western and Central Africa -- Latin America -- Central Asia -- South Asia.

Other LLDCS: Armenia, Lao PDR, FYR Macedonia, and Moldova -- Overview of the Policy Recommendations: Impact and Ease of Implementation -- Appendix 3 Trade Growth and Logistics Performance: LLDCs and Transit Neighbors -- References -- Appendix 4 Survey Findings on LLDC Logistics Performance -- Global Enabling Trade Report 2010 -- Connecting to Compete: The Logistics Performance Index (LPI) 2010 -- Doing Business in Landlocked Economies 2009 -- Comparing the Experience of Countries by Region -- The Penalties by Region of Being Landlocked -- Notes -- References -- Appendix 5 Measuring Transit Corridor Performance Parameters -- Locations at Which Measurements Will be Made -- The Products and Their Transport Unit and Transport Route -- The Cost and Replicability of Making the Measurements -- Note -- Reference -- Appendix 6 Maps of LLDCs and Transit Corridors, by Region -- Appendix References -- Index -- Back Cover.