While the travelers’ gender has not been a central consideration driving urban mobility planning, increasing evidence points to gender-differentiated mobility preferences and behaviors. This paper explores...
Mobility of goods and people in rural Haiti is constrained by the sparce road network and low maintenance of existing infrastructure. These challenges are further exacerbated by frequent natural disasters...
The growth of e-commerce has the potential to reduce shopping-related travel but brings with it additional freight vehicle trips for the delivery of online orders to consumers. Understanding the overall...
The COVID-19 pandemic significantly changed mobility patterns in the Bogotá and Buenos Aires metropolitan areas, as shown by the differences between the October 2019, 2020, and 2021 indicator values derived...
Efforts aimed at facilitating the growth transformation of Northwest Argentina need to effectively address the evolving transportation requirements. This study aims to analyze the anticipated future transport...
The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown measures implemented in 2020 disrupted mobility in cities around the globe, by adding new constraints to the travel behaviors of the residents and businesses and...
Transport connectivity is critical for economic recovery from the pandemic and the region’s overall economic growth over the long term, and yet transport costs and nontariff trade barriers in Central America...
The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown measures implemented in 2020 had a significant impact on mobility in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA), adding new constraints to the travel behaviors...
Ouagadougou, the largest city in Burkina Faso, is growing rapidly, with the annual rate reaching 9 percent by some estimates, and with commensurate challenges for ensuring efficient mobility for its residents...
Burkina Faso is an early adopter country in the World Bank’s Human Capital Project, and its priorities in this area are reflected in the various sector-specific strategies. Human capital as an overall...
Despite having made tremendous progress in ensuring equal access to education and healthcare for its people, with school enrollment rates rising and children in most countries receiving the recommended...
This book explores the economic and broader societal rationale for using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or ‘drone’ technologies as a complement to the current transport and logistics systems in several...
The paper identifies the impact of physical barriers to trade within Central America through the use of an augmented and partially constrained Gravity Model of Trade. Adjusting the Euclidian distance factor...
As tariffs and other formal barriers to trade have fallen across developing and industrialized regions, transport and logistics costs have become, in many cases, the biggest cost factor in the final price...
This study aims to ask questions essential to forming policy for short-term, economic stimulus in Jamaica. How do public works and construction investments filter through to other sectors? What skill levels...
Despite its image as a self-sustaining region in agricultural production, about one-third of the population of LAC lives in net food importing countries, and most of the region’s net food exporting countries...
This introductory section explains the rationale for the guidance note, reflecting on the relevance of food prices in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), their impact on the poor and the effect that...