Airlines and Developing Countries works to address some of the key challenges that are confronting airlines and public policy makers, helping to fill a number of voids in our knowledge.
Given the potential size of some of the markets involved and the comparative advantages in serving them, it is surprising to see a relative sparsity of airline activity in developing countries. Lack of suitable data, limited interest, and the comparatively small scale of aviation markets in many of these countries provide some of the explanations for this relative neglect.
Airlines and Developing Countries works to address some of the key challenges that are confronting airlines and public policy makers, helping to fill a number of voids in our knowledge. The approaches of the various expert contributors offer a range of technical, empirical, historical, and institutional analyses that consider long-term patterns of economic development and look at how airlines have influenced this going back as far as the 1930s.
Given the potential size of some of the markets involved and the comparative advantages in serving them, it is surprising to see a relative sparsity of airline activity in developing countries. Lack of suitable data, limited interest, and the comparatively small scale of aviation markets in many of these countries provide some of the explanations for this relative neglect. Airlines and Developing Countries works to address some of the key challenges that are confronting airlines and public policy makers, helping to fill a number of voids in our knowledge. The approaches of the various expert contributors offer a range of technical, empirical, historical, and institutional analyses that consider long-term patterns of economic development and look at how airlines have influenced this going back as far as the 1930s.
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1. Introduction; Kenneth Button
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2. Developing Countries and Their Passenger Airlines: An Economic
History; Kenneth Button
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3. The Economic History of Airline Development in Latin America;
Javier Vidal Olivares
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4. Exploring Dynamic Relationships Between Air Transportation and
Economic Growth in South America: Juan Gabriel Brida, Bibiana Lanzilotta,
Verónica Segarra, and Sandra Zapata
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5. Causal Relationships Between the African Aviation Industry and the
Economy; Tassew Dufera Tolcha, Svein Bråthen, and Johan Holmgren
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6. Determinants of intra-Maghreb Air Transport Demand; Eric Tchouamou
Njoya and Aliyu Isah
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7. "We Make People Fly": Low-Cost Carriers, Economic Development, and
Sustainability in Asia: John Bowen and Porter Burns
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8. The Efficiency Performance of Full-Service Carriers in East and
Southeast Asia amid Increasing Air Transport Liberalisation and LCC Presence;
Yahua Zhang, Colin C.H. Law, and Anming Zhang
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9. Code Sharing, Airline Alliances, and Other Forms of Airline
Cooperation in Developing Countries; Kenneth Button
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10. What Drives the Sustenance of Regional Airlines and Airports? An
Exploratory Study in India; Nivea Thomas and K.N. Jha
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11. Overview of Low-Cost Carriers in Russia and Post-Soviet States;
Tamillia Curtis and Dawna L. Rhoades
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12. Aggregate and Disaggregate Output Efficiency of Asian Passenger
Airlines; Jin-Li Hu and Nhi Ha Bao Bui
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13. The Role of Freight Airlines in the Developing World; Henry Vega
and Kenneth Button
Kenneth Button is a professor of public policy at the George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government and a world-renowned expert on transportation policy. Dr. Buttons training was in the fields of economics, econometrics, and transportation planning. He is recipient of the Transportation Research Forum Distinguished Researcher Award, the Distinguished Scholarship Award, Transportation and Public Utilities Group, American Economic Association, and Fellow of the Air Transport Research Society as well as being elected president of the Transportation Research Forum twice.
