Joe Studwell: evaluation

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…Well, but sub-Saharan — again, putting aside South Africa as a special case — the port seems to be another level of mess that if you’re exporting, you have to deal with a bad port system. If you’re in East Africa, there’re even a lot of property rights still up for grabs. There’s Somali land, there’s Somalia, there’s Ethiopia, there’s Eritrea — they want access to the sea. There’s Ethiopia versus Egypt. There’s Rwanda involved in the Congo. That’s the place where you ought to have a really great port driving growth in the whole region, but it just seems it’s not coming anytime soon. Again, Djibouti does seem to have a fair degree of water because people put military bases there, but that’s the exception. I agree, but again, what I’ve read in World Bank reports suggests that situation is still bad, but better than it was 10 and 20 years ago. Why is Benin doing so well now?…

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