Government effectiveness and logistics performance: evidence from a cross-country supply chain perspective

We study national logistics performance using a biennial panel of 138 countries over the period 2007–2018, linking the World Bank’s LPI to macroeconomic, financial, and institutional covariates. Prior results show several positives, but we prioritize Government Effectiveness as the key predictor on theoretical and empirical grounds: it maps directly to customs capability, project execution, and service quality, and remains strongly positive across generalized estimating equations (population-ave