The combination of distance, poor infrastructure, and being landlocked by neighbors with poor infrastructure, can make transport costs many times higher for some developing countries than for most others. Drawing on two traditions of economic modeling --Heckscher-Ohlin trade theory and von Thunen's work on the "isolated state" - the authors analyze the trade and production patterns of countries located at varying distances from an economic center...
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1999/12/31
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Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas
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WPS2256
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Geographical disadvantage - a Heckscher-Ohlin-von Thunen model of international specialization
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transport cost