Study Rationale, Objectives, and Organization

• Transport is an enabling sector for development and accounts for nearly one-fifth of World Bank Group commitments.
  
  
• The products and markets of the transport industry are complex and diverse.
  
  
• There is a strong link between transport improvements and poverty reduction.
  
  
• Transport services are nonstorable and highly time and route specific.

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