Estimating the Impacts of Transport Corridor Development in Kazakhstan

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dc.creatorIimi, Atsushi
dc.date2022-10-03T15:18:21Z
dc.date2022-10-03T15:18:21Z
dc.date2022-09
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:36:51Z
dc.descriptionLarge-scale transport infrastructure investment can facilitate structural transformation by changing firm behavior. Although its impact is evident over the long term, an important empirical challenge is potential endogeneity of infrastructure placement. By using the dynamic panel data regression, the paper examines the impacts of massive road corridor investment under the Nurly Zhol program in Kazakhstan. The paper takes advantage of detailed micro shipping data to capture historical changes in transport connectivity over the past 10 years. While the average travel speed has slightly increased, transport costs have been nearly halved. The estimated translog cost functions indicate that local market accessibility is the most important factor to boost firm productivity. The elasticity was 0.24 in absolute terms. Inventory is found to be a major cost factor for firms. It is found that a 10-percent improvement in accessibility to large cities, such as Astana and Almaty, could allow firms to reduce their inventory by 8.7 percent. The market accessibility is found to foster firm agglomerations, but agglomeration economies do not seem to translate into higher firm productivity. This is possibly because the Kazakh economy still lacks effective forward or backward linkages across industries.
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dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099313309292296795/IDU0c68da3b7061a6042a80b39f0fcd67f3dea5f
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/38096
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-10196
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/407368
dc.languageEnglish
dc.languageen
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relationPolicy Research Working Papers;10196
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectTRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE
dc.subjectINFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT
dc.subjectENDOGENEITY
dc.subjectMARKET ACCESS
dc.subjectFIRM PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectTRANSPORT CONNECTIVITY
dc.subjectFIRM INVENTORY
dc.subjectCOST FUNCTION
dc.subjectAGRICULTURE PRODUCTION
dc.subjectDYNAMIC PANEL REGRESSION
dc.titleEstimating the Impacts of Transport Corridor Development in Kazakhstan
dc.titleApplication of Dynamic Panel Data Models to Firm Registry Data
dc.typeWorking Paper
dc.typeDocument de travail
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