Logistics are a critical element for country competitiveness and economic performance, including poverty reduction. Most emerging countries such as Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean are focusing on export-led growth strategies and poverty reduction strategies, and their performance is adversely affected by their high logistic costs that range from 10% to 50% of product value. This book illustrates the relevance and impact of logistics on these areas while also offering an effective logistics and infrastructure framework that addresses the full spectrum of the productive chain (upstream, midstream and downstream). It provides a structured agenda for designing and implementing holistic policy interventions (soft and hard components) to reduce logistic costs. Featuring case studies and examples of specific interventions and their impact in many countries, a number of them in Latin America,this book is useful to scholars, academics, practitioners and policy makers interested in the reduction of logistics costs and poverty reduction in the global economy.

Provides an extensive and user-friendly platform to reduce logistics costs Offers methods to identify and to assess the level of logistics costs Features case studies and examples of specific interventions from Latin American countries

Autorentext

Jose Luis Guasch, a PhD in Economics from Stanford University, USA and Engineer form the Polytechnical University of Barcelona, Spain, is a renowned international expert in logistic and public-private-partnerships (PPP) currently assisting countries and lecturing on international conferences on improving countries logistic and PPP platforms. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, San Diego (USA). Previously, he was for many years Head of the World Bank Global Expert Group in PPP and Logistics as well as Senior Regional Advisor for the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank in Washington, D.C., were he was responsible for the areas of competitiveness, regulation, logistics, infrastructure, innovation and technological development. He has advised over 80 countries particularly on Logistic and PPP. and has published extensively on those themes.

Inhalt

1. **** Motivation for Analysis and Evaluation of Logistic Costs.- 2. Objectives and Content of a Logistic Costs Evaluation Task.- 3. Methodology: Definition, and Selection of Variable to Measure Logistic Costs.- 4. A Case in Point To Illustrate the Problematic of Logistic Costs.- 5. **** Impact and Benefits of Decreases in Logistic Costs.- 6. **** Sources, and Incidence of Logistic Costs.- 7. **** Methodological Notes and Phases for the Evaluation of Logistic Costs.- 8. Factors and Elements of Logistic Costs.- 9. Moving Forward: Towards an Effective Logistics-Infrastructure and Services Platform: Typology of Interventions (soft and Hard) to Reduce Logistic Costs.- 10. Specific Examples on Interventions to Reduce Logistic Costs and Impact.- 11. **** Conclusión