The Effectiveness of Port-City Policies: A Comparative Approach

Olaf Merk () and Thai-Thanh Dang
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No 2013/25, OECD Regional Development Working Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: policy evaluation; port development; port-cities; principal component analysis; transportation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C38 L98 R42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-12-16
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