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impacts of rural road projects using household-level panel data from Bangladesh. Rural road investments are found to reduce … output prices. Rural roads also lead to higher girls' and boys' schooling. Road investments are pro-poor, meaning the gains …
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the provision and management of road infrastructure. Chapter 7 discusses road based public transport, including the role …
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Yemen, the fastest urbanizing country in the Middle East and North Africa region, has a very limited natural resource base and the efficiency of its cities is therefore essential for its future economic growth. However, this efficiency is increasingly handicapped by the poor performance of urban...
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the name of 'road transport'. However, the report focuses on the Governments two main concerns: the urban bus and taxi … basic commodities as it should. In addition, Yemen faces a very high rate of road accidents: in 2006, the number of recorded … transport services, replacing the previous monopolies held by syndicates. Tariffs for road freight and passenger services are …
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Madagascar remains to exploit agglomeration economies and urbanization economies to sustain more rigorous economic growth. After several political and economic crises, Madagascar restored its modest but steady growth path with an average growth rate of 3.5 percent in the last 5 years (before the...
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African cities are growing at an extraordinary rate. Unfortunately, many cities are growing so fast that national, provincial, and city governments cannot manage how they develop or assure the provision of the services people need. This has many negative consequences for national and city...
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Developed at the request of the Mexican G20 Presidency for consideration by the Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors at the G20 Leaders' Summit in Mexico, and jointly prepared with the Asian Development Bank, this policy paper positioned green transport in the context of cities...
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