Belt and Road Economics: Opportunities and Risks of Transport Corridors

Ruta, Michele; Dappe, Matias Herrera; Lall, Somik V.; Zhang, Chunlin; Constantinescu, Cristina; Lebrand, Mathilde; Mulabdić, Alen; Churchill, Erik

doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-1392-4

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“…At the same time, as practical cases show, the countries receiving investment for the construction of transport infrastructure can only obtain economic benefits if there are adequate conditions for the evolution of the transport corridor. More specifically, the transport corridor should develop from a physical infrastructure to an economic corridor [27,28] with multimodal transport links and logistic services [29].…”

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The Evolution of the Kazakhstani Silk Road Section from a Transport into a Logistics Corridor and the Economic Sustainability of Regional Development in Central Asia

2020

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Central Asian countries attract investment in transport infrastructure to rebuild the Silk Road paths and enjoy economic benefits from the participation in international trade. The Kazakhstani government approached the Russian and Chinese governments intending to join the Western Europe–Western China (WE–WC) initiative to boost the country’s regional development. The paper aims to assess how the WE–WC transport corridor affected the economic potential of linking cities and regions starting from the quality of transport infrastructure and leading to their export potential. The study’s findings showed that the Kazakhstan section of the WE–WC corridor was at an early stage of transformation from a transport into an economic corridor. While the Russia-Uzbekistan section continues to serve mainly a transit function and operate at the level of transport infrastructure, the China-Kyrgyzstan section has started evolving from the level of multimode transport corridor to the level of logistics corridor. The economic sustainability of the WE–WC linking mining and agricultural regions of Kazakhstan still comes into question and depends on the government’s further region-specific policy actions.

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The Evolution of the Kazakhstani Silk Road Section from a Transport into a Logistics Corridor and the Economic Sustainability of Regional Development in Central Asia

2020

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“…Third, the accession of China into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the year 2001 (Alden, 2012;Rasiah et al, 2010). As well, China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) formed to enhance transportation connectivity, foreign investment, trade, and cooperation on transcontinental scale World Bank, 2019).…”

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The determinant of Chinese foreign direct investments in oil exporting African countries

Kafilah

2022

Contemporary Economic Policy

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The observed presence of China in the top 18 oil/minerals exporting countries in Africa warrants special interest, as the engagement has extended considerably to appear as an influential, hitherto questionable, South–South cooperation. In this study, the determinants of China's Foreign direct investment (FDI) stock and flow from 2003 to 2017 is examined using Ordinary least squares (OLS), generalized least squares (GLS) and Instrumental Variable 2‐Stage Least Squares techniques. The results indicate that oil/minerals and agricultural imports facilitate more FDI, and political instability spurs more FDI. Overall, this study recommends that policymakers should enhance trade policies to improve the sustainability of China–Africa engagement.

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“…The question, "what makes a megaproject? ", has been investigated from a plurality of positions: megaprojects have been discussed in connection to risk (Flyvbjerg et al 2003; see also World Bank 2019); future-making (M€ uller-Mahn 2020); capitalist expansionism (Kanai 2016;Zhang 2017); colonial legacies (Aalders 2020;Enns and Bersaglio 2020;Kimari and Ernstson 2020); peace-and state-building (Bachmann and Schouten 2018;Stepputat and Hagmann 2019;Uribe 2019); and reconfiguration of state spaces (Demissie 2017;Mayer and Zhang 2020;Ong 2003), to name but a few. In addition, critical scholarship has pointed to the constellations of capital and state interests that drive the current rush of large infrastructure projects across the global South, and have in addition exposed the severe forms of exclusion and dispossession that they produce (Li 2018;Tsing 2003;Uribe 2017).…”

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The Making and Unmaking of a Megaproject: Contesting Temporalities along the LAPSSET Corridor in Kenya

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In this paper, we show how communities in Northern Kenya proactively engage an unfolding megaproject and the temporalities it evokes-the Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET). We argue that the latitude communities have in contending with megaprojects is broader and more dynamic than passive reception of or outright resistance against the futures promised. By introducing the concepts of entangling and fraying, we emphasise the agency communities create for themselves by appreciating their strategies and expressions of stabilising or troubling the "megaproject". While entangling refers to practices through which communities attach additional features to an otherwise rather stable vision of its "meganess", fraying, in contrast, describes the strands that splice off towards different spatio-temporal imaginaries. We discuss these practices in four instances of engaging LAPSSET: constructing temporary homes at project sites; engaging in land reform; disputing land acquisition at oil exploration sites; and contesting a planned resort city. Muhtasari: Kwenye jarida hili, tunaonyesha jinsi jamii kaskazini mwa Kenya wanajihusisha na mradi wa muundo msingi unaojulikana kama Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET). Tunaonesha kuwa uhusiano kati ya jamii na miradi ya miundo msingi ufanyika kwa njia mingi na sio tu ati hao huikubali ama huipinga. Tukitumia dhana mbili amabazo ni kujihusisha na kukabiliana tunaonyesha jinsi jamii huwa na ushawishi mkubwa na uwezo wa kutumia mbinu tofauti ambazo zinaweza kustahimilisha ama kuvuruga mradi huo. Katika dhana ya kujihusisha, tunaangazia jinsi jamiii huambatanisha matakwa yao na mipango maalum ambayo hutarajiwa kutoka kwa miradi "kubwa" ya miundo msingi. Dhana ya kukabiliana nayo inaashiria maoni tofauti ambazo haziambatani na fikira za wapangaji wa miradi. Tunafanya hivi kwa kuzungumzia matukio nne ambayo jamii wanajihusisha na mradi wa LAPSSET. Matukio haya ni ujenzi wa makaazi yanayodumu kwa muda mfupi kwenye maeneo ya mradi; mikakati ya jamii kusajili ardhi yao; pingamizi za ardhi kuchukulia kwa miradi ya mafuta; na pingamizi juu ya mipango ya ujezi wa mji mpya wa mapumziko.

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Belt and Road Economics: Opportunities and Risks of Transport Corridors

Cited by 70 publications

References 30 publications

The Evolution of the Kazakhstani Silk Road Section from a Transport into a Logistics Corridor and the Economic Sustainability of Regional Development in Central Asia

The Evolution of the Kazakhstani Silk Road Section from a Transport into a Logistics Corridor and the Economic Sustainability of Regional Development in Central Asia

The determinant of Chinese foreign direct investments in oil exporting African countries

The Making and Unmaking of a Megaproject: Contesting Temporalities along the LAPSSET Corridor in Kenya

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