Corridors
Corridors are transport routes around roads, railways and waterways linking production zones, cities, countries and ports. They are where free trade agreements are actually implemented and offer the backbone of regional integration by connecting markets and facilitating trade between countries. They can help goods move faster – and cheaper – across borders, and are particularly important for landlocked countries that rely on access to seaports. Corridors also offer the potential to promote investment and create jobs. Currently, trade policies are often inconsistently applied along corridors, while there are increasing opportunities to apply technology to facilitate trade.
Resources on corridors
Impact assessment for corridor: From infrastructure to development corridors
Edited by Jonathan Hobbs and Diego Juffe-Bignoli, the Development Corridors Partnership.
01 January 2022
Transport corridors in Africa
Edited by Hugh Lamarque and Paul Nugent, with contributions from Hugh Lamarque and Paul Nugen, Sidy Cissokho, Isabella Soi, Sergio Oliete Josa and Francesc Magrinyà, Bruce Byiers and Sean Woolfrey, Jérôme Lombard, Nina Sylvanus, José-María Muñoz, Yunnan Chen, and Elisa Gambino.
01 January 2022
Corridors without borders in West Africa
By Mathilde Lebrand, The World Bank.
01 November 2021
Cross-border transport corridors and developmental regionalism in Africa: Experiences from West Africa and the Horn
Thesis by Sokhna Oumou Khairy NDOYE at the University of Edinburgh.
31 October 2021
The African Development Corridors Database
18 August 2021
Regional transport infrastructure programmes in Africa: what factors influence their performance?e their performance?
By Robert Tama Lisinge (UN Economic Commission for Africa) and Meine Pieter van Dijk (Maastricht School of Management) for the Canadian Journal of African Studies.
01 April 2021
Towards an enhanced Africa-EU Cooperation on Transport and Connectivity
By the Africa-Europe Task Force on Transport and Connectivity.
01 January 2021
Report on best practices for effective transit transport corridor development and management
By UN-OHRLLS.
28 May 2020
One-stop border posts in East Africa: State encounters of the fourth kind
By Paul Nugent and Isabella Soi for the Journal of Eastern African Studies.
26 May 2020
The integrated corridor approach - A holistic infrastructure planning framework to establish PIDA-PAP 2
By the African Union Commission
27 February 2020
