Improving Transnational Transport Corridors
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Figure 14: Four Zones of Regional Corridor Development
Source: Srivastava (2011).
Corridors are meant to fill regional infrastructure gaps and at the same time promote pro-poor
socio-economic development (se .
3.2. Political and Institutional Factors
Many agreements are needed to be made for a transport corridor to be successful. These range
from the movement of goods, people and intellectual property to the technical specifications of
goods, working practices and educational accreditation. Without sound institutional
structures, good governance and reliable jurisprudence, corridor development and operational
integrity are less likely. For there to be common political goals, there must be common values
and history. In Europe those drivers fell easily from the long history of conflict that spans 1000
years or more. From the Polish German Wars of 1001 the Kosovo crisis of 1999, there have
been over 500 European conflicts. Clearly the vision of Jean Monnet and others that only
through sound international relations, shared social and economic goals and interdependence
of the highest order, can long term peace and prosperity be assured. Jean Monnet would not
have been surprised by Brexit and other set-backs. In his preliminary declaration for
European integration in 9 May 1950, he slipped in the warning: “Europe will not be made all at
once, or according to a single plan: rather it will be formed by taking concrete measures which
bring about real solidarity.” These institutions were the ones conceived and set into place by
Jean Monnet: The Parliament, the Council (today the European Council) and the Commission
are the “common democratic institutions that hold the necessary sovereignty.”16
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