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Strategic Implications For The United States Of The Belt And Road Initiative In Africa, Alec Monnie
Strategic Implications For The United States Of The Belt And Road Initiative In Africa, Alec Monnie
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
The belt and road initiative is one of the most significant developments of the twenty-first century, which the United States will need to learn to adapt to. Much of the academic literature regarding the belt and road initiative mentions that Africa is a significant participant in this policy development, but fail to elaborate as to why that is, or what the implications for this are for the United States. This article expands upon the strategic significance of the African continent, and explains the implications thereof for the United States and China. This article argues that the belt and road initiative …
Deadlier Road Accidents? Traffic Safety Regulations And Heterogeneous Motorists’ Behavior, Christine Ho, Madhav S. Aney
Deadlier Road Accidents? Traffic Safety Regulations And Heterogeneous Motorists’ Behavior, Christine Ho, Madhav S. Aney
Research Collection School Of Economics
In 2003, China enacted the Road Traffic Safety Law in an attempt to promote traffic safety.We employ a difference-in-differences strategy on province level data, where fire accidentsare used as a control group for road accidents, to estimate the effects of the law on road accidents and casualties. Our findings suggest that while the law was successful in decreasing thenumber of accidents and casualties, the ratio of deaths to accidents and injuries to accidentsincreased. Exploring the potential channels, we find no evidence that “hit-and-kill” incentives,that is, incentives for motorists to kill the pedestrians that they hit due to China’s peculiar personal …
Capitalizing And Depreciating Cyclical Aircraft Maintenance Costs: More-Trouble-Than-It's-Worth?, John W. Lee, Glenn Walberg, Darryl Whitesell
Capitalizing And Depreciating Cyclical Aircraft Maintenance Costs: More-Trouble-Than-It's-Worth?, John W. Lee, Glenn Walberg, Darryl Whitesell
Faculty Publications
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The Unctad Liner Code: A Dead Letter?, Sock-Yong Phang, Rex S. Toh
The Unctad Liner Code: A Dead Letter?, Sock-Yong Phang, Rex S. Toh
Research Collection School Of Economics
The UNCTAD Code of conduct for Liner Conferences entered into force in 1983. The Code's cargo allocation scheme or '40-40-20 rule' aims to provide shipping lines of developing countries with a fair change to compete for the carriage of their seabourne trade. However, the Code has not been effective in meeting its stated objectives for a variety of reasons. Amongst the administrative difficulties are (i) the complications introduced by the EEC's Brussels Package, (ii) the definition of national lines, (iii) the unit of measurement for cargo allocation purposes, and (iv) the monitoring of cargo movements. The tremendous growth in non-conference …
Land Use Planning Study Impacts Of Short Line Railroads, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Land Use Planning Study Impacts Of Short Line Railroads, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
The purpose of this report was to examine local land use policies and practices in respect to short line railroads in Massachusetts to ensure that they meet federal and state goals. The railroads were located in Palmer, Westfield and Braintree, Massachusetts.