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Logistics are a critical element for country competitiveness and economic performance, including poverty reduction. Most emerging countries such as in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean are focusing on export-led growth strategies and poverty reduction strategies, and their performance is adversely affected by their high logistic costs that range from 10% to 50% of product value. This book illustrates the relevance and impact of logistics on these areas while also offering an effective logistics and infrastructure framework that addresses the full spectrum of the productive chain (upstream, midstream and downstream). It provides a structured agenda for designing and implementing holistic policy interventions (soft and hard components) to reduce logistic costs, as well as case studies and examples of specific interventions and their impact in many countries, a number of them in Latin America, which have similar problems in competitiveness and poverty as other emerging countries.