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Do Rural Infrastructure Investments Benefit the Poor? Evaluating Linkages--A Global View, A Focus on Vietnam
Songco, Jocelyn A. - 2013
What are linkages between rural infrastructure investments, and household welfare? In the past, most of the evaluations to assess the effectiveness of a project, focused on physical outputs, and success of project implementation. In recent years, more attention has been given to the impact of...
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Improving Logistics Costs for Transportation and Trade Facilitation
Gonzalez, Julio A.; Guasch, Jose Luis; Serebrisky, Tomas - 2012
Access to basic infrastructure services - roads, electricity, water, sanitation - and the efficient provision of the services, is a key challenge in the fight against poverty. Many of the poor (and particularly the extreme poor) in rural communities in Latin America live on average 5 kilometers...
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Social and Economic Impacts of Rural Road Improvements in the State of Tocantins, Brazil
Iimi, Atsushi; Lancelot, Eric R.; Manelici, Isabela - 2015
The aim of this paper is to provide feedback on the question of socioeconomic benefits from rural road development and the impact of transport infrastructure on the poor, particularly the poorest and the bottom 20 percent of the population. This paper relies on impact evaluation methodologies,...
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How Does India's Rural Roads Program Affect the Grassroots? Findings from a Survey in Orissa
Bell, Clive; Dillen, Susanne van - 2012
poor, drought-prone region of India. Of 30 villages originally surveyed in 2001-02, when two had such roads, a further nine …
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Highway to Success in India : The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Manufacturing
Ghani, Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William R. - 2013
The infrastructure gap is one of the most significant impediments to India realizing its growth and poverty reduction … potential. Although India s transport network is one of the most extensive in the world, accessibility and connectivity are … upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. The analysis uses a difference-in-difference estimation strategy …
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Infrastructure and Finance : Evidence from India's GQ Highway Network
Das, Abhiman; Ghani, Ejaz; Grover, Arti; Kerr, William; … - 2019
This paper uses the construction of India's Golden Quadrangle central highway network, together with comprehensive loan … data from the Reserve Bank of India, to investigate the interaction between infrastructure development and financial sector …
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Scaling-up Microfinance for India???s Rural Poor
Basu, Priya; Srivastava, Pradeep - 2012
This paper reviews the current level and pattern of access to finance for India's rural poor and examines some of the … key microfinance approaches in India, taking a close look at the most dominant among these, the Self Help Group (SHG) Bank … 6,000 households in India undertaken by the authors. The main findings and implications of the paper are as follows …
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Rural Roads and Local Market Development in Vietnam
Mu, Ren; van de Walle, Dominique - 2012
The authors assess impacts of rural road rehabilitation on market development at the commune level in rural Vietnam and examine the variance of those impacts and the geographic, community, and household factors that explains it. Double difference and matching methods are used to address sources...
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What is Missing Between Agricultural Growth and Infrastructure Development? Cases of Coffee and Dairy in Africa
Iimi, Atsushi; Smith, James Wilson - 2012
Although it is commonly believed that aggregate economic growth must be associated with public infrastructure stocks, the possible infrastructure needs and effects are different from industry to industry. The agriculture sector is typical. Various infrastructures would affect agriculture growth...
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On Measuring the Benefits of Lower Transport Costs
Jacoby, Hanan G.; Minten, Bart - 2012
Despite large amounts invested in rural roads in developing countries, little is known about their benefits. This paper derives an expression for the willingness-to-pay for a reduction in transport costs from the canonical agricultural household model and uses it to estimate the benefits of a...
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