The Effectiveness of Port-City Policies: A Comparative Approach

The relation between ports and their cities have evolved: it is no longer evident that well-functioning ports have automatically a net positive impact on the port-city. There are various trajectories and many ports and port-cities attempt to stimulate port-city development by a range of public polic...

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Main Author: Merk, Olaf (Author)
Other Authors: Dang, Thai-Thanh (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 2013
Series:OECD Regional Development Working Papers
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1787/5k3ttg8zn1zt-en
Summary:The relation between ports and their cities have evolved: it is no longer evident that well-functioning ports have automatically a net positive impact on the port-city. There are various trajectories and many ports and port-cities attempt to stimulate port-city development by a range of public policies. Yet, little is known about effectiveness of policies to promote performance of ports and port-cities. This paper aims at filling this gap, by assessing the effectiveness of port-city policies, within various policy areas including port development, port-city economic development, transportation, environment, research and development, spatial development and communication. This is done via a principal component analysis (PCA), based on a database constructed for the purpose of this paper with outcome variables and scores of policies for a set of 27 large world port-cities, that makes it possible to identify policies that are associated with effective policy outcomes and show patterns of related policy outcomes and policies
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (36 Seiten) 21 x 29.7cm
DOI:10.1787/5k3ttg8zn1zt-en