Roads to Poverty Reduction? Exploring Rural Roads' Impact on Mobility in Africa and Asia
Within current poverty reduction programmes, focus on the social-welfare millennium development goals is widening to embrace a concern with infrastructural investment, particularly for remote areas. The previously popular assumption that rural disadvantage can be remedied by road-building is resurfacing. Using survey data from Ethiopia, Zambia and Vietnam, this article explores how effective such investment is in addressing mobility and social-service accessibility in rural areas. The findings indicate that, in extremely remote areas, road improvements may catalyse the expansion of social-service provision, as evidenced in Ethiopia. However, given the poor's relative lack of motor vehicles and ability to pay for public transport, they are, by no means, a sufficient condition for enhancing the mobility of the rural poor. Copyright (c) The Authors 2008. Journal compilation (c) 2008 Overseas Development Institute..
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2008
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Authors: | Bryceson, Deborah Fahy ; Bradbury, Annabel ; Bradbury, Trevor |
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Development Policy Review. - Overseas Development Institute. - Vol. 26.2008, 4, p. 459-482
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Overseas Development Institute |
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