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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Dear logprofs Editors</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">This very recently launched World Bank public domain report and dataset would certainly be of interest for the mailing
list recipients, so please, share it among them:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">The </span><span lang="EN-US">World Bank report "Connecting to Compete 2018: Trade Logistics in the Global Economy", or the Logistics Performance Index (LPI) 2018 has now been launched. The report
and the data can be accessed in the public domain at:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/29971"><span lang="EN-US">https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/29971</span></a>
<span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Direct link to download the report in PDF:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/29971/LPI2018.pdf"><span lang="EN-US">https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/29971/LPI2018.pdf</span></a>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Press Release in English: Trade Logistics Gap Persists Between Developed and Developing Countries
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/07/24/trade-logistics-gap-persists-between-developed-and-developing-countries"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/07/24/trade-logistics-gap-persists-between-developed-and-developing-countries</span></a>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Lauri<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">----------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Mr. Lauri Ojala<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Professor of Logistics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Operations & Supply Chain Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Turku School of Economics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">FIN-20014 University of Turku<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Finland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Mobile: +358 50 502 70 31<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="mailto:lauri.ojala@utu.fi"><span lang="EN-US">lauri.ojala@utu.fi</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Co-author of World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index (LPI)
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://lpi.worldbank.org/">http://lpi.worldbank.org/</a>
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