This paper investigates the effects of India’s rural roads program (PMGSY) on morbidity, using data on 279 households … panel of 1580 individuals, 1076 of whom were present in both years. Ten villages had received a direct all-weather road … connection by 2013. Treating the village as a unit within the whole road network, the provision of a connection, whether direct …

unjust distribution of infrastructure has been the cause of socioeconomic imbalances in rural and urban areas. In India only … 40% of the urban and semi-urban population is provided with good infrastructure. Rural India is largely deprived of … adequate infrastructure. Despite continuous efforts at the center and state for providing infrastructure, the achievement has …

This paper uses a general equilibrium trade framework to estimate the contribution of transport infrastructure to … regional development. I apply the analysis to India, a country with a notoriously weak and congested transportation … infrastructure. I first analyze the development effects of a recent Indian highway project that improved connections between the four …

financing), followed by a fourth module that provides climate-related key performance indicators (KPIs) applicable to road … the above processes that are specific to road projects and are meant to serve as entry points for the relevant activities …