Modelling Approach to Economic Corridors

Loay Ghazaleh – BSc. Civil Eng. , MBA
India Sep. 2017

Contents
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1. Asia’s Development Needs & Cooperation
2. Development Corridors Demystified
3. Growth Poles Vs. Economic Zones
4. Examples of Corridor Projects in Europe
5. Modeling Approach To Economic Corridors
6. Case Studies of Modeling Approach
7. The Future As it Related to Economic Corridors

Asia’s Development Needs & Cooperation
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 ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations
 BIMP-EAGA Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area
 BIMSTEC Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-sector Technical and Economic Cooperation
 CAREC Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
 GMS Greater Mekong Sub region
 IMT-GT Indonesia Malaysia Thailand Growth Triangle
 PIF Pacific Islands Forum
 SAARC South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
Asia is increasingly integrated
economically stretching from
the shores of the Black Sea in
the West to the Western shores
of the Pacific in the East and
stretching from the Maldives
and South Pacific to PRC and
Central Asia in the North
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The Belt & Road Initiative; 6 Economic Corridors
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Industrial & Economic Corridors In India
 Delhi Mumbai Industrial
Corridor (1483 km)
 Chennai Bangalore Industrial
Corridor (560 Km)
 Bangalore Mumbai Economic
Corridor (1000 km)
 Amritsar Kolkata Industrial
Corridor(1839 Km)
 Chennai Vizag Industrial
Corridor(800 Km)
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Trade and Development in Asian Countries
 With the economic growth of two trade giants India and China,
Asian Countries relationship with global trade have changed.
 ASEAN economies will emerge as a growth bridge between the
giant markets between India and China
 East Asia leads total economic activities by almost double.
 South East Asia is intermediate in economic activities.
 South Asia is low in terms of economic activities.
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Population
Trade
Population
Southeast
AsiaSouth Asia
East and
Central Asia
Imports
Southeast
Asia
South Asia
East and
Central Asia

Asia’s Connectivity & Cooperation
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Asian Regional Integration Trade Opportunities
 Regional trade and integration offer Asia great
potential for more rapid and sustained growth. Much
of Asia’s benefits from global trade liberalization can
be realized by regional initiative alone.
 Structural barriers to trade are now more important
than tariffs.
 Policies and investments that facilitate trade can
accelerate regional growth dramatically.
 Regional integration can promote Asian economic
convergence, raising average growth rates and
benefiting poorer countries.
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Asia’s Infrastructure Needs
 Infrastructure key to economic growth, reducing
regional inequalities
 Large parts of Asia are land-locked and isolated.
 Asia’s infrastructure below global average…
 Bottleneck to economic growth and poverty reduction.
 Asia’s investment needs 2015-2020:
 Estimated $800 billion per year (national infrastructure).
 Along with more than $200 billion annually for regional
infrastructure projects, mainly transport and energy
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ADB Regional Cooperation Initiatives
 Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines
East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA)
 Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
(CAREC)
 Greater Mekong Sub region (GMS)
 Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-
GT)
 South Asia Sub regional Economic Cooperation
(SASEC)
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CAREC Example of Regional Cooperation
 10 countries (Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz
Republic, Mongolia, Pakistan, PRC, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan)
 Six IFI collaboration (but leadership by countries) each with
clear roles, (ADB, EBRD, IMF, Islamic Development Bank,
UNDP, World Bank).
 More than $28 billion of investments
 6 corridors linking markets, ideas, and people
1. Europe – East Asia
2. Mediterranean – East Asia
3. Russian Federation – Middle East and South Asia
4. Russian Federation East
5. East Asia – Middle East and South Asia
6. Europe – Middle East and South Asia
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NOTES on CAREC
 CAREC has high potential as a transit region between the east of Asia and the European end of
the Eurasian continent. The Russian Federation has historically been the main trading partner
for Central Asian economies. Trade connections between the Russian Federation and the
European Union are being strengthened and trade is intensified.
 Xinjiang Province of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) now accounts for the bulk of trade
with the PRC, and with growing integration in the PRC of its western provinces with the east
coast, the importance and opportunities of extending production networks into Central Asia is
rising. Furthermore, low economic density suggests opportunities for hub-and-spoke economic
corridor development approaches.
 The key agglomeration and other growth benefits in Central Asia could come from hub
development around key urban centers, and maybe in newer secondary centers, whereas the
transportation network links are completed in specific segments and the quality characteristics
of these network links is improved in critical locations along the way.
 Available numbers on the traffic density of road and rail along the CAREC corridors indicate
that road transport serves trade among the CAREC economies over shorter distances, and that
railway links carry the very small longer-distance traffic, fed by some extent from the more
localized road traffic.
 Given the potential of the region as a bridge between East and West, this long
distance intermediary function of the region might be enhanced further.
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Development Corridors Demystified
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Macro Logistics System Interlinks
Logistic
System
Institutional
Framework
Infrastructure
Shippers /
Consignees
Service
Provider
The Interlink determine the overall system capability and performance
The
development of
logistics
services and
communication
technologies
has
revolutionized
production and
distribution
processes and
created a
‘global’ market.
Shippers and
consignees
require
efficient
logistics
services that
can move their
goods to the
right place, at
the right time,
in the right
condition, and
at the right
price.
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Economic Corridors Components
Labor, Technology,
Knowledge, Innovation,
Commerce, etc.
Trade &
Transport
Corridors
Urban
Poles
(Clusters)
Industrial
Clusters
Access, Distribution,
Collection
Access to Markets,
Gateways
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Corridors Development Stages
 Usually each individual leg/section in each country is identified and assessed
separately.
 The overall assessment level of the corridor (logistics performance) is based on the
weakest link of the corridors.
 Logistics corridors usually do exist but only within the boundary of a country
 Border crossings are the weakest link in integrating economic corridors.
Corridor
Type
Definition
Transport
Corridor
Transport Corridor that physically links an area or region.
Multimodal
Corridor
Multimodal Corridor that physically links an area or region through the
integration of various modes of transport.
Logistics
Corridor
Logistics Corridor that physically links an area or a region and harmonizes
the corridor institutional framework to facilitate the efficient movement
and storage of freight, people and related information.
Economic
Corridor
Economic Corridor that is able to attract investment and generate economic
activities along the less developed area or region. Physical linkages and
logistics facilitation must be in place.
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What Are Economic Corridors?
 Economic corridors connect economic agents along a defined geography.
They provide important connections between economic nodes or hubs that
are usually centered in urban landscapes. In short, they link the supply
and demand sides of markets.
 Economic corridors do not stand alone, as their role in regional economic
development can be comprehended only in terms of the network effects
that they induce on global and regional value chains and production
networks.
 Economic corridors are integral to the economic fabric and the economic
actors surrounding it. Increasingly they play a key role in the balanced
economic development of lagging regions.
 Economic corridors do not generate significant economic benefits in
isolation, but rather they contribute as part of an integrated economic
networks since the economies would be spatially disaggregated in the real
geography of the region in question.
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What Economic Corridors Can Achieve?
What economic corridors can achieve for regional economic integration
depends on;
 First; the characteristics existing of economic networks in which the economic
specific corridors are embedded personify,
 Second; the characteristics corridor development is intended to introduce or
strengthen.
 Corridor characteristics interact dynamically to create patterns of regional economic
development. Models that make this interaction explicit have combined elements of
the New Economic Geography.
 THUS, In order for the corridor to serve MORE communities / economies there
would be a need to build (or possibly upgrade existing) feeder roads; similarly to
connect agricultural areas or industrial developments to the corridor.
 Obtaining buy-in from all countries that are parties to an economic corridor is
paramount. Example some countries find themselves “transit countries,” providing
benefits for others but not realizing gains themselves.
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Characteristic of Economic Corridors
 Economic corridors are best defined by their interacting characteristics, and it is
through dynamic characteristics’ measurement that economic corridor performance
can be determined, benchmarked and monitored.
 The measurements used are commonly employed model parameters, as further detailed
below and in the appendices.
 Structural Characteristics; Industrial Structure, Trade, and Complex Export
Composition and Costs Competitiveness a country has along its economic corridors
matters for the success of corridor development.
 Geographic Cohesion Characteristics; Generally, the more cohesive a geography is
the more distributed the impacts tend to be.
 Accessibility Characteristics ; Countries intent on exporting more products, have to
increase their capacity to coordinate more and more inputs to gain and maintain
access to a number of markets.
 Network Characteristics ; Establishing interconnectivity in transport networks and
technologies, or via institutions, is essential for regional economic and trade
integration.
 Economic Corridor Characteristics assessments indicate which INDICATOR need to be
strengthened, with appropriate investments and policy actions.
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Structural Characteristics
 Industrial Structure, Trade, and Export Composition; A vibrant ecology of firms
significantly contributes to increases in export complexities along economic corridors, thus it is
essential to support a viable firm structure and ecology, which allows competitive entry (and
exit), and innovation for rapid growth.
 Export Complexity; A more complex economy measured by the degree of diversification of
the export basket has more capability to expand into new and adjacent sectors within the
product space. An increase in export complexity is the best predictor of income growth in an
economy.
 Agribusiness’ Share of Exports; The costs and times of moving agricultural perishable
goods along global value chains (GVCs) differ substantially from those that are not perishable.
Determining the agribusiness intensity of exports from a region is essential for determining the
investment required to establish and increase competitiveness over time.
 Relative Unit-Labor Costs for Competitiveness; Competitiveness in product space is to a
significant extent determined by labor productivity in relative terms. In trade, this cost is
attenuated by the quality of output reflecting technological capacity.
 Regional Income Distribution; Trade network and agglomeration effects can disadvantage
areas with low capabilities. Connecting peripheral and lagging regions through physical
corridors to central areas requires putting in place measures that induce the structural changes
necessary to rapidly increase the diversity and competitiveness of the lagging areas.
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Geographic Cohesion Characteristics
 Population Density and Dynamics; Population densities and its growth along with in
working populations migration codetermine the density of networks of economic interaction
which has direct impact on markets.
 Prospects for Trade Diversification along Value Chains; Each export commodity
produced gives rise to specific opportunities for future diversification based on technological
complexity and input output relationships according to each country’s potential for progressing
up the value chain.
 Intra-Regional vs. Inter-Regional Trade Composition; Economic models have been
used to project trade transformation on the basis of recent trends. Some models predict that the
trade between today’s high-income economies, or advanced economies (AEs), and the fast-
growing Emerging Economies (EMs) will for the next 2 decades remain at about 50% of all
world trade. It is predicted, in relative terms, intra-EM trade will rapidly outgrow intra-AE
trade. This is indicative of the increasing amount of intraregional components trade in EMs.
 Share of Components Trade; In today’s world, vertical trade network integration is
increasing, as GVCs involve components of goods and final goods and services crossing national
and regional border multiple times. In some regions, especially East Asia, growth in the
components trade outstrips overall trade growth. With growing vertical integration,
conventional measures of trade flows are harder to interpret, and may be important to look at
growth figures from a value-added perspective.
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Network Characteristics
 Vertical Network Integration; The transformation of trade flows has important
implications for locating economic activities along corridors as increased corridor network
density increases economic interaction. Production network agglomeration along economic
corridors is likely to increase in a few favorable geographic locations, unless policies and
investments are undertaken which improve trade capacities of outlying and lagging areas, and
improve their physical and informational accessibility from and to the economic hubs.
 Information Network Integration along Value Chains; Network characteristics shape
the exchange of know-how, technology, and market information. Networks and value chains
more effectively allow diffusion of knowledge with an increase in network density and with the
existence of central, dominant players in a value chain. Central players can either be from within
a region or outside the region under consideration. Furthermore, GVCs ease the transmission of
know-how as they constitute collective processes of learning and absorption, often over very
long distances.
 Transport Network Completeness; Tightly-knitted transport network decreases the
transaction length (in terms of cost and time) in an economic hub and network. Also Network
resilience increases dramatically with the higher completeness of a transport network.
 Interconnectivity (Local to Global); Increased intermodal connectivity adds to the
completeness of a network and establishes lifeline linkages to the outside world. The bridging
links from the local to the global can beneficially influence corridor development. Transit links
can be very important regional and inter-regional lifelines.
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Accessibility Characteristics
 Combined Travel Times and Travel Costs Affect Logistics Chain
Efficiency; overall logistics chain efficiency is strongly associated with
trade expansion, export diversification, attractiveness for investment in
productive capacities, and economic growth and poverty reduction.
 Comprehensive Transit Arrangements and Capabilities;
Establishing comprehensive transit agreements and capabilities is vital for
the success of land-based economic corridors that span two or more
countries especially for landlocked countries.
 Market Access Capabilities Development; Countries that are intent
on exporting more complex products, have to both increase their capacity to
coordinate more inputs to gain market access.
 Export Financing and Financial Market Capabilities; Market access
also necessitates the development of competitive export financing and
export credit insurance to underpin investment in export capabilities, and
to improve the viability of the export firm structure.
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WB Definition of Corridors
 WB generally does not use the term economic corridor.
Instead, it refers to “transport and trade corridors”,
sometimes freight corridors, all of which contribute toward
economic development.
 World bank (WB) notes that “transport/ trade corridor” has
both a physical and functional dimensions.
 In terms of physical components, a corridor includes one or
more transport routes that connect centers of economic
activity with common transfer points and connected to the
same end nodes which, in turn, are gateways that allow traffic
with sources or destinations outside the corridor
 Other donors define economic corridors as a further stage of
corridor evolution compared to transport or freight corridors.
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ADB and AfDB Definition of Corridors
 Asian and African Development Banks define an
“economic corridor” as connecting economic agents
along a defined geography.
 As a corridor evolves, it increasingly supports social and
economic development; a basic transport corridor
typically impact only the immediate area adjacent to the
corridor.
 As the facilities, border crossings, industrial areas and
urban areas develop along and adjacent to the corridor,
extend out from the corridor, so the impact of the
corridor widens.
 Social development and economic growth are best
fostered if the corridor links areas of economic potential
called economic “end nodes”.
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Trade Corridors; A Concept In Evolution
WORLD BANK
• Assisting land-locked
countries which
depend on overland
routes to access sea-
ports for international
trade
• Neighboring countries
have to provide access
to infrastructure
(Cost?)
• Vehicle and driver
access rights, licensing
& insurance
US/CAN NAFTA
• Products, services,
and information
moving in
geographic patterns
according to a matrix
or "culture of trade"
• Agreements and
treaties, statutes,
delegated legislation,
and customs that
govern and guide
trading relationships
and structures
EU TEN-Corridors
• Infrastructure,
interoperability,
multimodal services
• Strengthening of
economic, social and
territorial cohesion
• Seamless, safe and
sustainable mobility
of persons and goods
• Contributing to
economic growth ,
competitiveness in a
global perspective.
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Implementation
Finalization of the Regulatory and Institutional Framework
Identification of Trunk infrastructure packages
Seeking Environment clearance for the Nodes
Preparation of Digital Master Plan for the Nodes
Preparation of Feasibility Studies for Early Bird Projects
Preparation of Concept Structural Plan and Development Plan of the identified nodes
Identification of suitable sites for the Investment Region
Preparation Perspective Plan for the overall Region
Economic Corridors Planning

Economic Corridor Tips For Successful
Implementation
 Successful economic corridor implementation requires strong
political will and the appropriate infrastructure with
streamlined competitive procedures that enable the facilitation of
cross-border movement of goods and people.
 However, even with such a cooperation program, it was observed that
many non-physical barriers to the cross-border movement of goods,
people and vehicles still existed. Examples;
 Inconsistent and difficult border crossing formalities and procedures
 Restrictive visa requirements
 Restrictions on entry of motor vehicles, coupled with different
standards on vehicles and drivers across countries.
 Instances of Transit traffic not being allowed
 Excessive time taken for low value transactions compared to high
value.
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Development and Regional Integration
Challenges along Economic Corridors
Economic corridors each face unique challenges and each is built on the
basis of different opportunities or comparative advantage. Among the
Common Challenges;
 Need to bridge a Divided Geography
 Need to develop Regional Markets
 Balance Growth and Income Distribution (Geographically)
 Build Up Resilience to Interruptions of Movement of Economic
Resources
 The strengthening of trade capacities to access new markets and the reduction of
constraints to export competitiveness, helps set in motion a virtuous growth
cycle.
 Greater connectivity and regional cohesion, combined with strengthening links
among SMEs, and along value chains, leads to a rise in productivity and
export diversification.
 For successful development, it is important to generate a minimum scale so that
spillover effects are of sufficient magnitude to generate positive impacts and
positive feedback effects which then can maintain the growth cycle.
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Cross-Border Transport Agreement
The Cross-Border Transport Agreement (CBT) should be a comprehensive
multilateral instrument that covers all the relevant aspects of cross-border
transport facilitation , it includes:
 Single-stop/single-window customs inspection
 Cross-border movement of persons engaged in transport operations
 Transit traffic regimes, including exemptions from physical customs inspection,
bond deposit, escort, and agriculture and veterinary inspection.
 Clear requirements that road vehicles have to meet to be eligible for cross-
border traffic
 Exchange of commercial traffic rights and infrastructure
 Preferably , common road and bridge design standards, road signs, and signals.
 Preferably, interoperability railway standards.
Its worth noting that the “Non Transport Activity” which includes the time
required for loading and unloading, administrative and customs
formalities can amount to almost 50% of the cost if not managed properly.
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Final Notes On Development Corridors
 Despite the long history of corridors, there is still a lack of coherent guidance on how
to plan, design and analyze the likely impact of corridor projects.
 Part of the difficulty is that there are several types of development corridor and often
no clear distinction between each type of corridor.
 Earlier; Economic Corridors Emphasized bilateral rather than multilateral
initiatives, focusing on strategic nodes particularly at border crossings between two
countries.
 Efficient corridor operations encourage further economic activity that leads to
further investment and, ultimately, the corridor evolves from simple transport
routes into fully-fledged economic corridors.
 Not all corridors are intended to become economic corridors, but intermediate
corridors (trade, freight, industrial, agricultural, etc.) also contribute to increased
economic activity.
 Finally; “As Is” evaluation based on understanding of the situation of the logistics
system of a geographical area (a regional or a macro logistics system) is essential as
the measurement basis for the following related dimensions;
 Shippers, Traders, And Consignees;
 Public, Private Sector Logistics And Transport Service Providers;
 Provincial And National Institutions, Policies, And Rules; and
 Transport and communications infrastructure.
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Growth Poles AND Economic Zones
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Growth Poles Vs. Economic Zones
 Growth poles usually combine public and private investments in many
sectors and are specifically built around an already-existing resource at a
specific location in an economy to support self sustaining industrialization.
 They bear resemblance to, but are not the same as, special economic zones
(SEZs), which are delimited areas within an economy. Examples include
export processing zones, economic processing zones, free zones, and
foreign trade zones.
 SEZs, as supply-side competitiveness measures, are aimed at
overcoming barriers that hinder investment in the wider economy,
including restrictive policies, poor governance, inadequate infrastructure,
and problematic access to land. Their finance models have largely been
public.
 Industries within a Growth Pole have the capacity to innovate and adapt to
market conditions to generate further investment, employment which in
turn generates external effects that stimulate the growth of other industries.
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Debating SEZ’s Role
 Although there is a long, history in using SEZs to promote investment in remote
regions, the evidence suggests SEZs can be highly effective when targeting regions
that already have natural or economic geography advantages.
 And although SEZs are unlikely to trigger agglomeration in lagging regions with low
population densities, in places such as China, where SEZs targeted coastal trade
gateways, they have proven to be powerful catalysts for growth; however, most have
failed to extend benefits outside their enclaves or to contribute to the upgrading of
skills and the production base.
 It is important to separate political support from political objectives in zone projects.
Although strong commitment from the government is needed, projects must be
designed carefully on the basis of clear strategic plans.
 The zones must be commercially viable, and the case for their
construction must be based on sustainable sources of competitiveness,
not solely on fiscal incentives.
 Despite the concept of zones as enclaves, in practice, their success is
almost fully entwined with the competitiveness of the national economy
and the national investment environment.
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Growth Poles Development Process
 Growth poles emerge as a policy response to the need to create better spatial
and political economy linkages in the new regional markets.
 The challenges to commerce and trade in these new markets no longer arise
predominantly from high tariffs, but rather from barriers behind the borders
 To trade beyond their countries’ borders, exporters need to benefit not only
from additional hard infrastructure and technical assistance from their
governments and other actors, but also from equally ambitious policy reforms
to support the agglomerations of competitive industries and to facilitate trade.
 Growth pole projects are usually large-scale investments that require
considerable upfront expenditure. As such, growth poles present a vast
financing challenge.
 Infrastructure finance includes both public and PPP models. Public
finance models can include accruing user fees, property value capture (such as
the acquisition and later sale or lease of excess land), tax incremental financing,
and so on. Still, growth poles, like infrastructure projects, increasingly see PPPs
as their key financing model.
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Growth Poles Stakeholders Consultation
Developing a growth pole successfully necessitates developing a
dialogue with stakeholders in order to:
 Understand the current context for development and growth, as well as ongoing
and future investment potential
 Share best practices and success stories
 Generate new ideas for specific growth pole interventions
 Test existing ideas
 Identify key “champions” for change and develop partnerships
 Define the role of international finance in encouraging localized and inclusive
growth
 Take key ideas and develop interventions in concert with local partners or
champions
 Identify projects for funding
 Coordinate among all strategically important initiatives
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Competitive Industries In Growth Poles
Several different types of diagnostics can be utilized to assess the
competitiveness:
 Spatial analytics; analyze, from a locational perspective, some of the key
economic drivers in play, such as agribusiness, natural resources, logistics,
infrastructure, and existing manufacturing capabilities
 Sector and subsector analytics; complemented by product spatial analysis,
identify emergent competitive advantages
 Trade and services sector competitiveness; identify spillovers between
sectors
 Enterprise surveys include firm-level surveys of a representative sample of
an economy’s private sector. The surveys cover a broad range of business
environment topics including access to finance, corruption, infrastructure,
crime, competition, and performance measures
 Business school–style case studies of the top “gazelles” (dynamic, fast-
growing companies) usually are co-produced with local research institutions to
illustrate the methods used by local dynamic enterprises
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Institutions Coordination In Growth Poles
Dynamic interaction among institutions needs to be coordinated both
horizontally and vertically to produce the desired outcomes:
 Government Horizontal Coordination
 Streamlining institutional arrangements to coordinate competitiveness,
investment, and other issues between central and local government, and
between public and private sectors.
 A council or team in a ministry could play an important strategic role in
horizontal coordination.
 Stakeholder Vertical Coordination
 Because of the dynamic nature of a growth in pole projects, implementation
arrangements in particular should be attended to in detail
 An effective results-based monitoring and evaluation framework, based on
multi-stakeholder participation, iterative learning, and peer group studies of
other growth poles should be constructed.
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Financial Instruments In Growth Poles
Each growth pole is a sum of its parts, and any growth pole would have
financing from some combination of the following:
 Public Financing (including donor resources applied through the budget)
 Donor Grants
 Financing At The Sovereign And Sub Sovereign Level that lie outside
the budget
 Public Private Partnerships to build and operate/renovate service delivery
in the infrastructure and social and economic development spaces (industrial
estates)
 Asset Sales/Leases (typically using the value of the land created by the
initiative)
 Privatization of existing state-owned enterprises with redundant but useful
assets
 Corporate social responsibility–like contributions to public projects
 Private Financing with some risk mitigation
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The Lamu Port–South Sudan–Ethiopia Transport
(LAPSSET) Corridor – Poles Developments
 Connects Ethiopia, South Sudan,
Rwanda, and the Democratic
Republic of the Congo up to
Douala in Cameroon
 The LAPSSET project is
expected to spur economic
growth in participating countries
by increasing annual growth rate
to around 6 percent.
 For projects such as
LAPSSET, such a required
combined strategy is often
described as the
development of growth
poles.
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Examples of Corridor Projects in Europe
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Selected Corridor Projects in Europe
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• Probing land based
alternatives to maritime
routes between China and
Scandinavia
East West
Transport
Corridor
• Pre-feasibility for intermodal
transport links between
Europe and global markets
(Eastern Med/SE Asia)
AB Land
Bridge
• Improving multimodal freight
logistics services
• Business plan development
SONORA -
SOuth-
NORth Axis
• Accessibility of regions to
main transport corridors (SK,
CZ, CR, HU, AT)
South East
Transport
Axis

Expected Benefits Issues and Concerns
 Shorter lead-time by reducing
transport distance by 50%.
 Competitive duration 30 days,
deep sea shipping about 50 days.
 Competitive price and stable
transport charges
 Frequency requested varies from
4 times per month to daily
services.
 Very well developed monitoring
system of Trans siberian Railway
 Convenient and efficient freight
transport between Denmark,
Sweden and Lithuania
 Transshipment because of
different rail gauges necessary
 Additional documentations
because of different rules in
railways: CIM-SMGS
 Different languages,
documentations
 The lack of shared containers,
empty containers sent before
 No service organized
 Slow and complicated
Russian Customs procedure.
East West Transport Corridor
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Results Issues and Concerns
 Freight forwarders and transport
service providers are looking for
alternatives to existing routes;
 Value in terms of freight cost
benefits and less total cost of
door-to-door delivery.
 Sufficient space on vessels, safety
and security, guaranteed and
reliable departures are critical
 Fresh food warehousing, reload
facilities, tracking & tracing are
among the top logistics
requirements.
 Railroad carriers (mostly still
state owned) show only
limited interest in the
development of new transport
services
 Private operators who have
already developed services are
conscious not to cannibalize
their current business.
 Legal obligation to use low-
sulfur fuel expected to results
in higher fuel costs
Adriatic Baltic Land bridge
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Issues and Concerns
 Delays resulting from cross-border procedures of passenger and freight
trains is the major organizational constraint of the implementation of the
SETA corridor
 If traction/electrification is different across the border (electric/diesel) a
change of locomotive is required.
 Even when multi-system locomotives are available, the lack of mutual
acceptance of drivers may prevent the same locomotive to travel across the
border and hence border-crossing is delayed.
 Technical wagon inspection (e.g. breaks) is carried out to ensure that the
condition of the wagons entering a country conform to national
regulations.
 Documents concerning the train and the cargo are exchanged. If it is not
done electronically, it will add to the time needed for border procedures.
South East Transport Axis
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Identified Barriers and BottlenecksCapacity
High utilization
and resulting
capacity
constraints
(road/rail)
Speed constraints
between urban
nodes
Lack of intermodal
and multimodal
connections
connecting ports to
hinterland
Interoperability
Rail
interoperability
issues: energy,
control-command
and signaling, and
infrastructure
(loading gauge,
train length)
Interoperability
issues related to
road, air and rail
telematics
applications
(Vehicle Telematics
System- VTS, Toll
Collection, air
traffic control)
Harmonization
Lack of the
harmonization of
procedures for
railway vehicles
authorizations; lack
of mutual
acceptance of
drivers
Lack of coordination
between agencies
and country specific
regulatory and
operational
requirements for
international trade
and transport.
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UNECE Recommendation To EU
Trade &Transport Corridors
 Companies and governments produce information that only partially
fulfills the needs of trade corridors. Multimodal corridor information
system (MCIS) is needed, where information provided by individual
corridor partners will be combined and shared.
 There is need to develop a multimodal transport model as a standardized
foundation for an MCIS and other forms of interoperable information
exchange.
 Recommendation to implement trust-building mechanisms,
partnerships, and cooperative initiatives that bring together the many
participants in the transit and corridor operations.
 Continue the coordination efforts between The European Railway
Agency (ERA), The Intergovernmental Organization For International
Carriage By Rail (OTIF), The Organization for Co-operation between
Railways (OSJD) and others to ensure the compatibility of rail
regulations
 Development of a common consignment note
 Regulations for a transcontinental railway law
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Modeling Approach To Economic Corridors
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Methodology Economic Corridors Modelling
 The approach is based on selecting an economic geography with the economic
landscape mapped in a cumulative over-time way, populated with economic agents
in employment, production, economic corridors, and environmental space.
 Spatial Development (SD) tools which brings together spatial planning and
development projects (economic agents) are used to map the geography and
highlight areas of unrealized economic potential, thereby enhancing the
development potential of the corridor.
 The aim of an SDI’s is to achieve balanced development with the inclusion of
communities and Several criteria are used to justify the funding of corridor smaller
businesses (cluster projects) or larger investments (anchor projects) such as
positive effects on incomes and employment, reductions in poverty and
regional disparities, etc.
 The models and data need to be at scales that permit a detailed assessment of the
geographic distribution of project benefits and/or costs.
 The Model needs to allow assessment of distribution of benefits in circumstances
where benefits and costs are unevenly spread across borders.
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Advantages Using the Modeling Approach
 Large cumulative benefits can become apparent when potential growth-inducing
investments that raise the production potential of integrated economic and geographic
areas are modeled along economic corridors.
 Conceptualizing a corridor development business plan through the application of a
modeling approach allows the distribution of benefits accruing across the region in
various investment scenarios to be computed and prioritized coupled with
relevant policies that yield the highest economic benefits.
 THUS; Models are focused on the practical task of deciding among alternative
projects and so can provide key input to policy makers. The simulation of
investment scenarios can point policy makers to options for balancing a benefit-pay-off
matrix across administrative and/or political units of an economic region.
 Further; the Model can also be used to identify key economic corridor bottlenecks
and hurdles for the region’s economic development.
 Therefore; the data needs to permit calculation of indicators that allows assessment
whether the potential and actual impact of corridors are being realized (i.e., in terms of
the criteria used to justify the projects).
 This entails the need to establish suitable organizational processes to meet data
requirements and develop and maintain an optimal data resource management system.
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Economic Models Views (Layers)
The views constitute a hierarchy where the policy questions
drive the analysis, and hence the models. The models, in turn,
drive the data requirements, and considerations for building an
appropriately rich data resource drive organizational processes.
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The Views Framework
 The “Policy View” is a decision tool that takes inputs and provides outputs at a
policy-relevant level, using standard indicators. Policy makers would, in
particular, be able to specify the scale (regional, national, local) and the model
would be able to adjust impact assessments to this choice.
 The “Model View” is the level at which the inner workings of the decision tool
are specified (i.e. it contains the equations of the economic model). This is the
logical framework within which the effects of changes in policies, whether ex
ante or ex post, are calculated.
 The “Data View” makes transparent the data resource management system
underlying the model. Clearly, every model will have a set of data requirements,
and the system must satisfy them.
 The “Organizational View” is centered on data resource management
system that is supported by organizational processes that institutionalize data
collection, maintenance, and publishing.
 The four aspects, or views, must be implemented together to complement each
other for success; policy, modeling, data, and organizational process.
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Policy View
 There could be multiple indicators and measures of value for public projects (growth
rates, outputs of specific industries, incomes in the region, impacts on vulnerable
populations, etc.) and of cost (dollar cost of a project, environmental impact, etc.).
 Policy is implemented on varying scales: there are local, national, and regional
policy views. Policy makers represent competing views and interests at these levels.
 The scale of the policy and policy makers disagreements with each other dictate the
nature of the model policy view. The importance of regional integration in
reconciling conflicting policy views is paramount for the success of regional
economic integration and economic corridor development. The collective action
problem tends to increase with scale.
 As an example, The value of transportation infrastructure investment lies in its
enabling the faster and cheaper movement of goods and people but equally, regions
“protected” from competition by bad transportation infrastructure are opened up
which if it has little if any economic capacity to compete in markets. Then a region
can be dominated by ‘transit,’ which depletes its resources and allows emigration of
talent.
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Model View
 Models are decision tools for policy makers. To be effective they have to reflect the
geographic scale of the decision impact. Decisions can be made based on ex ante
simulations of impact scenarios, and on ex post evaluations of previous
interventions.
 To capture change over time, models are dynamic, i.e. they include a time
dimension. They are modular and can be extended when demands for new
indicators of success emerge.
 For instance, the way that production, consumption, and trade patterns are
affected by the transport infrastructure will eventually need to be answered using a
simulation model in which economic decision-makers make choices like What goods
to produce, What goods to consume, What inputs to source and from whom, Where
to locate production, and What markets to participate in.
 Details at the level of small administrative areas allow specifying how the local
economies function, and how they interact with the rest of the world (before and
after the intervention). The final fully-calibrated simulation model will capture both
spatial and dynamic patterns of economic activity.
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Data View
 Any project in the area will use and generate extensive data, both to build models to help
make policy decisions, and to evaluate the results.
 A time series of geocoded inputs (on population, economic activity, poverty
rates, transport accessibility and cost, etc.) would be used by the models to
compute impacts (which would also be geocoded).
 A dataset must come with enough metadata to understand what it refers to, which time
period it covers, who has published it, etc. Particularly for a fundamentally spatial activity
like the building of a corridor, it is essential to have good geospatial data and
metadata (the geometry of the region covered by the data).
 Geospatial metadata allows data from different sources to be integrated area by area
(using suitable methodological choices where areas overlap), and enables different
datasets to be immediately visually related by presenting them in layers on a
map view (layers that identify the key production centers of industry and agriculture,
the distribution of resources, tourist sites, vulnerable ecologies, existing transportation
structures, etc.)
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Organizational Process View
 Data is a resource, the value of which increases when it is open. It becomes
like public infrastructure such as roads that allow a vibrant business
environment to function. In the past data has been tightly guarded, but in
recent years, governments have made more data more openly available.
 The building of a data resource of the kind outlined above requires
organizational commitment at the highest levels. Data collection,
maintenance, and publishing could not be sustained over any appreciable
period of time if the activities are not integrated into the workflow of the
collecting agencies.
 There are established precedents for data management and monitoring
(data.gov.uk in the United Kingdom, data.gov in the United States, etc.).
 The bigger challenge is likely to be to ensure that the data is;
 Supranational harmonized—i.e. a common set of indicators are used
across a region,
 is available as a time series at similar frequencies, and
 Is available at the level of detail (for states, districts, oblasts, localities)
required for the models discussed above.
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Final Notes on the Economic Corridor Models
 Through geo-coding and geo-referencing of networked resources,
the long-range income and poverty distributional effects can be
captured with hybrid approaches.
 In an economic agent-based model, the production of a good is
physically dispersed, a variety of production chains are feasible, and
there is also potential that trade infrastructure investments will
reconfigure the value chains. This gives the model the strong
advantage of the explicit representation of real space, as an
economic geography can be matched along key variable dimensions
with the actual geography of the region.
 THUS; the spatial and temporal dimensions of economic activity
and trade are critical for understanding the impact of economic
corridor investments.
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Investment Selection is Both An Art and a Science
 There are almost unending possibilities for combining a set of investments
and actions under an economic corridor development program. Fitting an
investment response to the specific challenges, which have to be overcome to
successfully develop a corridor, or many corridors embedded within various
economic networks, is as much an art as it is a science.
 It is an art to concentrate policy and financial resources on developing the
critical characteristics that otherwise would constrain beneficial outcomes in
order to figure out the combinations and sets of possibilities that are likely to
lead to the highest benefit–cost ratio for a select geography and the economic
agents involved as a whole.
 The science part is in applying the combined elements of the New Economic
Geography, in the model calibrated parameters to the corridor type and its
specific and characteristic and the environment, which can then identify the
best possible simulations options for boosting trade and incomes from
economic corridor development.
 LAST WORD HERE!, Model results NEED to be examined in terms of
particular benefits and risks prior to implementation.
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Case Studies of Modeling Approach
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Modeling Lessons Learned (EU & SASEC)
 In both European Union & South Asia Sub regional Economic Cooperation regions,
detailed models were constructed to assess the economic impact of corridor investments.
The larger regions benefiting from the projects were split up into relatively small sub
regions for which data was collected and models built.
 Both regions also maintained detailed data on the transportation network, and on the
effect of new infrastructure investment on the network.
 The commonalities of these two models suggest the specifications of a core data
infrastructure that could support a variety of models that address the central question of
corridor investment impact.
 The EU case is a good example of an institutionalized process (spanning decades) for
collecting data and building models to evaluate investments and support policy.
 The SASEC case is a good example where the model was also used to prioritize
investments, and was at a scale that highlighted the regionally inequitable impact of
corridor projects. The model was also used for the design of optimal policy to examine the
possibility of using alternative transit fees for cargo that crosses through a country, to
spread the benefits of the project widely.
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Modeled Opportunities for GMS Area
 The GMS is covered by very good spatial planning data, at numerous
sector layers (environment, energy, transport, agriculture, tourism,
urban, and population) at a very fine-grained scale.
 A combination with as yet missing traffic flow and trade data at a very fine-
grained level opens up exploration of opportunities to widen the existing
transport corridors into economic-sector embedded corridors.
 One opportunity is to invest in ecotourism corridors, which leverage the
agglomeration of cultural heritage sites in the region. This could leverage
several other, globally networked service-sector opportunities in turn.
 With such an opportunity, or any other one for economic corridor
development, the principle to follow is to augment the capacity in the inland
poorer areas of GMS by linking them to the markets and agglomerations that
support sufficient demand. These markets and agglomerations exist along
coastal areas within GMS, and of course further abroad.
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The Future As it Related to Economic Corridors
64

Three Main Trends in Urbanisation: Mega
Cities, Mega Regions and Mega Corridors
MEGA CITIES
With A Minimum
Population Of 10
Million
Cities
Combining With
Suburbs to form
MEGA REGIONS
of Over 15
Million
MEGA
CORRIDORS
Connecting Two
Major Cities or
Mega Regions
Total Global Urban Population in 2020 to reach 1,500 million
Population in Top 30 Cities to reach 450 million in 2020

Cities built from scratch
Existing eco cities
Existing eco megacities
Treasure Island
Boulder
Arcosanti
Coyote Springs
Destiny
Babcock Ranch
Vancouver
Toronto
San Francisco
Portland
Seattle
Curitiba
Montreal
Bogota
St Davids
Clonburris
Göteborg
Hammarby Sjöstad
London
Barcelona
Reykjavik Oslo
Freiburg
Stockholm
Paris
Copenhagen
Kochi
GIFT
Cape Town
Pune
Dongtan
Tianjin
Changsha
Khajuraho
Meixi Lake
Waitakere, N.Z.
Singapore City
Songdo
Moreland, Australia
Amsterdam
Masdar
 More than 50% of Smart cities of 2025 will be from
Europe and North America.
 China and India to see over 50 New “Sustainable” Cities
Over 40 Cities to be SMART Cities in 2020

2020s : Branded Cities
•City borders will expand out of suburbs to enclose multiple
downtowns.
•Multiple Transportation Models will be used and more than
50% will use public transportation
•Offices moved to the first belt suburbs except non cost
sensitive activities, city centres become shopping areas for
expensive goods and living areas for “double income, no kids”.
Ring Road
Motorway,
Living Areas
growing
outside the
ring road as
seen in London
Development of Mega City Corridors By 2020
1950s Urbanisation
Creation of the historic
center and districts
2000s Suburbanisation
Urban sprawl, first highways
and ring road
2015s Network City
Third suburban cities
along ring roads

TAKEAWAYS! THINGS TO REMEMBER
 Each export commodity produced within the Economic Corridor gives
rise to specific opportunities for future diversification from a value-
added perspective based on technological complexity and input output
relationships according to each country’s potential for progressing up
the value chain.
 Network characteristics shape the exchange of know-how, technology,
and market information. Networks and value chains more effectively
allow diffusion of knowledge with an increase in network density and
with the existence of central, dominant players in a value chain.
 Central players can either be from within a region or outside the
region under consideration. Furthermore, GVCs ease the
transmission of know-how as they constitute collective processes of
learning and absorption, often over very long distances.
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