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Economically efficient prices for the passenger transportation system in the Greater Cairo Metropolitan Area would account for broader societal costs of traffic congestion and accidents, and local and global pollution. A $2.20 per gallon gasoline tax (2006 US$) would be economically efficient,...
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The literature lends empirical support for the idea that improvements to transport infrastructure lead to economic development. How and why the benefits of better transport differ between genders is less clear. This paper attempts to answer this question by combining a nonexperimental impact...
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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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geo-referenced panel over three decades (1970-2005) during which the road network was significantly improved, the analysis …
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of groundwater salinity on road maintenance expenditures in the coastal region of Bangladesh. The assessment draws on new … panel measures of salinity from 41 stations in coastal Bangladesh, and road maintenance expenditures, income, road network … length, and road surfaces from 20 coastal municipalities. In a model relating maintenance expenditure for paved roads to …
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found that transport connectivity, especially greater road density, can increase access to health care, but there was no … significant effect of road quality. This may be because of significantly skewed underlying data. The vast majority of roads in … Liberia are in poor condition. The study also found that the statistical effect of road density varies depending on distance …
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and new road capacity, and demand-side pricing instruments, such as parking and fuel taxes. Using an empirical urban …
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The effects of urban transport policies on household welfare are a broadly understudied topic in developing countries. This paper analyzes the distributional effects of a newly established bus rapid transit system in Barranquilla, Colombia. The paper uses pooled cross-sectional household survey...
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This paper examines the linkages between urban form and city productivity, using alternative metrics for urban form and applying them to a comprehensive sample of Latin American cities. Although most of the literature has concentrated on the effects of population density (compact versus...
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In recent years, there has been renewed interest in access to jobs in relation to transport connectivity. In Sub-Saharan Africa, about 14 million working age people are added to the labor market every year. Ensuring sustained access to jobs seems to be a prerequisite for inclusive and robust...
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