Baku-Tbilisi-Kars: Regional Implications and Perspectives
Bittner, Victoria Ariel; Ibrahimli, Minavvar | October 2018
Abstract
There has been strong consensus that the development of a transport system involving EaP and EU countries may enable beneficial economic and political cooperation. Considering the importance and relevance of the topic for current academic literature and policy agendas, this paper contains analyses of different countries’ perspectives in the context of economic as well as political outcomes. The first section, the Literature Review, has been dedicated to an exploration of railway transportation in general and a discussion of different perspectives on the BTK project in particular. The second section presents a fiscal analysis of participating countries, to calculate the varying expenditures for the project, whilst the third section discusses the economic benefits of the project in a comparative way. Finally, the last part of the paper is dedicated to examining the political implications of the corridor not only for the participating members of the BTK project, but also for countries that may have interests in joining the project or have an indirect political stake, given the largescale impact of the project
Citation
Bittner, Victoria Ariel; Ibrahimli, Minavvar. 2018. Baku-Tbilisi-Kars: Regional Implications and Perspectives. © Center for Economic and Social Development. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/9371.Keywords
Transport
Transportation
Trade
Trade Facilitation
Trade Potential
Trade Development
Trade Agreements
Regional Trade Integration
Regional Trade
Finance And Trade
Demand For Transport
Road & Highway Transport
Road Transportation Systems
Transport Infrastructure
Economic integration
Energy
Import volume
Export volume
Access to markets
Economic agreements
Trade financing
Regional integration
Vehicle
Land transport
Transport economics
Railways
Infrastructure
Railroads
Roads
Trade routes
Markets
Economic goods
Economic conditions
New agricultural enterprises
Consumer goods
Road transportation
Trucking
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