Developing China's ports : how the gateways to economic prosperity were revived /
Many countries in Africa and Asia have coastlines that present opportunities for them to become gateways for trade between the hinterlands and global trading routes. However, policy makers struggle to translate this potential into engines of economic development and social transformation. In the pas...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
World Bank Group,
[2022].
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| Series: | International development in focus.
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| Summary: | Many countries in Africa and Asia have coastlines that present opportunities for them to become gateways for trade between the hinterlands and global trading routes. However, policy makers struggle to translate this potential into engines of economic development and social transformation. In the past forty years, China has taken advantage of its strategic geographical location and its status as one of the world's top manufacturing regions. From a very low position on almost all metrics, today China has become home to more than half of the world's top fifty ports. The rapid development of China's ports was critical for the country's remarkable economic growth. What China achieved can be informative, how and why China revived and modernized its port sector is especially relevant and provides valuable lessons for other countries. |
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| Item Description: | "This report is an output of the Transport Global Practice of the World Bank Group"--Acknowledgments. |
| Physical Description: | xxi, 95 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781464818493 1464818495 |