Estimating the Social Profitability of India's Rural Roads Program : A Bumpy Ride

India's rural roads program, Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, aims to draw villagers into the mainstream by improving not only their terms of trade, but also their educational attainments and health. Treating each all-weather feeder road as a...

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Main Author:	Bell, Clive
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ACCESSIBILITY ACCIDENTS ADOLESCENTS ADVERSE EFFECTS AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT AGRICULTURAL WAGES AGRICULTURE BIKES BONDS CAPITAL MARKETS COMMUNICABLE DISEASES CONGESTION CONSUMER PRICE INDEX CONSUMERS COST ANALYSIS COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS DECISION VARIABLES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIESEL DISCOUNT RATE DISTORTIONARY TAXES DISTRICT ROADS DRAUGHT ANIMALS DRINKING WATER ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMICS LITERATURE ELASTICITY ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION EMPIRICAL BASIS EQUIVALENT VARIATION EXPECTED UTILITY EXPENDITURES EXTERNAL COSTS EXTERNALITIES EXTERNALITY FAMILIES FEEDER ROAD FEEDER ROADS FOOTPATHS FUNCTIONAL FORMS GDP GROWTH RATE HIGHWAY HUMAN CAPITAL INCOME INCREASING RETURNS INDUSTRIALIZATION INJURY INTERNATIONAL TRADE ISOLATION JOURNEY MARGINAL UTILITY MARKET PRICES MARKETING MIGRATION MORBIDITY MORTALITY MOTOR FUEL NATIONAL INCOME NET EXPORTS OPPORTUNITY COST PATIENT PATIENTS PER CAPITA INCOMES POLLUTION POPULATION GROWTH PRESENT VALUE PRODUCTIVITY INCREASES PROFITABILITY PUBLIC GOOD PUBLIC GOODS RECONSTRUCTION REDUCTION IN TRAVEL ROAD ROAD MAINTENANCE ROAD NETWORK ROAD PRICING ROAD PROJECTS RURAL ROAD RURAL ROADS RURAL TRAFFIC SAVINGS SHADOW PRICES STATE HIGHWAYS SUNK COSTS TAXATION TAXIS TERMS OF TRADE TRAFFIC VOLUMES TRANSPORT TRANSPORT COSTS TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION COSTS TRIP TRIPS TRUCKS UTILITY FUNCTION VOLUME OF TRAFFIC WAGE RATES WAGES WILLINGNESS TO PAY WORKERS YOUNG ADULTS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/08/16603174/estimating-social-profitability-indias-rural-roads-program-bumpy-ride http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12008

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spelling	okr-10986-120082021-04-23T14:02:58Z Estimating the Social Profitability of India's Rural Roads Program : A Bumpy Ride Bell, Clive ACCESSIBILITY ACCIDENTS ADOLESCENTS ADVERSE EFFECTS AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT AGRICULTURAL WAGES AGRICULTURE BIKES BONDS CAPITAL MARKETS COMMUNICABLE DISEASES CONGESTION CONSUMER PRICE INDEX CONSUMERS COST ANALYSIS COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS DECISION VARIABLES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIESEL DISCOUNT RATE DISTORTIONARY TAXES DISTRICT ROADS DRAUGHT ANIMALS DRINKING WATER ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMICS LITERATURE ELASTICITY ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION EMPIRICAL BASIS EQUIVALENT VARIATION EXPECTED UTILITY EXPENDITURES EXTERNAL COSTS EXTERNALITIES EXTERNALITY FAMILIES FEEDER ROAD FEEDER ROADS FOOTPATHS FUNCTIONAL FORMS GDP GROWTH RATE HIGHWAY HUMAN CAPITAL INCOME INCREASING RETURNS INDUSTRIALIZATION INJURY INTERNATIONAL TRADE ISOLATION JOURNEY MARGINAL UTILITY MARKET PRICES MARKETING MIGRATION MORBIDITY MORTALITY MOTOR FUEL NATIONAL INCOME NET EXPORTS OPPORTUNITY COST PATIENT PATIENTS PER CAPITA INCOMES POLLUTION POPULATION GROWTH PRESENT VALUE PRODUCTIVITY INCREASES PROFITABILITY PUBLIC GOOD PUBLIC GOODS RECONSTRUCTION REDUCTION IN TRAVEL ROAD ROAD MAINTENANCE ROAD NETWORK ROAD PRICING ROAD PROJECTS RURAL ROAD RURAL ROADS RURAL TRAFFIC SAVINGS SHADOW PRICES STATE HIGHWAYS SUNK COSTS TAXATION TAXIS TERMS OF TRADE TRAFFIC VOLUMES TRANSPORT TRANSPORT COSTS TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION COSTS TRIP TRIPS TRUCKS UTILITY FUNCTION VOLUME OF TRAFFIC WAGE RATES WAGES WILLINGNESS TO PAY WORKERS YOUNG ADULTS India's rural roads program, Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, aims to draw villagers into the mainstream by improving not only their terms of trade, but also their educational attainments and health. Treating each all-weather feeder road as an isolated element within the larger network, and using shadow prices to value the main components of costs and benefits, the paper demonstrates that further investments in the program are, with high probability, socially profitable, especially in poorer and more densely settled regions. Taking the entire set of new individual roads together, qualitative arguments suggest that their external and spill-over effects on the system as a whole probably generate some net additional benefits, but of very uncertain magnitude. 2012-12-21T20:06:44Z 2012-12-21T20:06:44Z 2012-08 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/08/16603174/estimating-social-profitability-indias-rural-roads-program-bumpy-ride http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12008 English en_US Policy Research working paper;no. 6168 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research South Asia India
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topic	ACCESSIBILITY ACCIDENTS ADOLESCENTS ADVERSE EFFECTS AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT AGRICULTURAL WAGES AGRICULTURE BIKES BONDS CAPITAL MARKETS COMMUNICABLE DISEASES CONGESTION CONSUMER PRICE INDEX CONSUMERS COST ANALYSIS COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS DECISION VARIABLES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIESEL DISCOUNT RATE DISTORTIONARY TAXES DISTRICT ROADS DRAUGHT ANIMALS DRINKING WATER ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMICS LITERATURE ELASTICITY ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION EMPIRICAL BASIS EQUIVALENT VARIATION EXPECTED UTILITY EXPENDITURES EXTERNAL COSTS EXTERNALITIES EXTERNALITY FAMILIES FEEDER ROAD FEEDER ROADS FOOTPATHS FUNCTIONAL FORMS GDP GROWTH RATE HIGHWAY HUMAN CAPITAL INCOME INCREASING RETURNS INDUSTRIALIZATION INJURY INTERNATIONAL TRADE ISOLATION JOURNEY MARGINAL UTILITY MARKET PRICES MARKETING MIGRATION MORBIDITY MORTALITY MOTOR FUEL NATIONAL INCOME NET EXPORTS OPPORTUNITY COST PATIENT PATIENTS PER CAPITA INCOMES POLLUTION POPULATION GROWTH PRESENT VALUE PRODUCTIVITY INCREASES PROFITABILITY PUBLIC GOOD PUBLIC GOODS RECONSTRUCTION REDUCTION IN TRAVEL ROAD ROAD MAINTENANCE ROAD NETWORK ROAD PRICING ROAD PROJECTS RURAL ROAD RURAL ROADS RURAL TRAFFIC SAVINGS SHADOW PRICES STATE HIGHWAYS SUNK COSTS TAXATION TAXIS TERMS OF TRADE TRAFFIC VOLUMES TRANSPORT TRANSPORT COSTS TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION COSTS TRIP TRIPS TRUCKS UTILITY FUNCTION VOLUME OF TRAFFIC WAGE RATES WAGES WILLINGNESS TO PAY WORKERS YOUNG ADULTS
spellingShingle	ACCESSIBILITY ACCIDENTS ADOLESCENTS ADVERSE EFFECTS AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT AGRICULTURAL WAGES AGRICULTURE BIKES BONDS CAPITAL MARKETS COMMUNICABLE DISEASES CONGESTION CONSUMER PRICE INDEX CONSUMERS COST ANALYSIS COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS DECISION VARIABLES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIESEL DISCOUNT RATE DISTORTIONARY TAXES DISTRICT ROADS DRAUGHT ANIMALS DRINKING WATER ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMICS LITERATURE ELASTICITY ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION EMPIRICAL BASIS EQUIVALENT VARIATION EXPECTED UTILITY EXPENDITURES EXTERNAL COSTS EXTERNALITIES EXTERNALITY FAMILIES FEEDER ROAD FEEDER ROADS FOOTPATHS FUNCTIONAL FORMS GDP GROWTH RATE HIGHWAY HUMAN CAPITAL INCOME INCREASING RETURNS INDUSTRIALIZATION INJURY INTERNATIONAL TRADE ISOLATION JOURNEY MARGINAL UTILITY MARKET PRICES MARKETING MIGRATION MORBIDITY MORTALITY MOTOR FUEL NATIONAL INCOME NET EXPORTS OPPORTUNITY COST PATIENT PATIENTS PER CAPITA INCOMES POLLUTION POPULATION GROWTH PRESENT VALUE PRODUCTIVITY INCREASES PROFITABILITY PUBLIC GOOD PUBLIC GOODS RECONSTRUCTION REDUCTION IN TRAVEL ROAD ROAD MAINTENANCE ROAD NETWORK ROAD PRICING ROAD PROJECTS RURAL ROAD RURAL ROADS RURAL TRAFFIC SAVINGS SHADOW PRICES STATE HIGHWAYS SUNK COSTS TAXATION TAXIS TERMS OF TRADE TRAFFIC VOLUMES TRANSPORT TRANSPORT COSTS TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION COSTS TRIP TRIPS TRUCKS UTILITY FUNCTION VOLUME OF TRAFFIC WAGE RATES WAGES WILLINGNESS TO PAY WORKERS YOUNG ADULTS Bell, Clive Estimating the Social Profitability of India's Rural Roads Program : A Bumpy Ride
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relation	Policy Research working paper;no. 6168
description	India's rural roads program, Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, aims to draw villagers into the mainstream by improving not only their terms of trade, but also their educational attainments and health. Treating each all-weather feeder road as an isolated element within the larger network, and using shadow prices to value the main components of costs and benefits, the paper demonstrates that further investments in the program are, with high probability, socially profitable, especially in poorer and more densely settled regions. Taking the entire set of new individual roads together, qualitative arguments suggest that their external and spill-over effects on the system as a whole probably generate some net additional benefits, but of very uncertain magnitude.
format	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author	Bell, Clive
author_facet	Bell, Clive
author_sort	Bell, Clive
title	Estimating the Social Profitability of India's Rural Roads Program : A Bumpy Ride
title_short	Estimating the Social Profitability of India's Rural Roads Program : A Bumpy Ride
title_full	Estimating the Social Profitability of India's Rural Roads Program : A Bumpy Ride
title_fullStr	Estimating the Social Profitability of India's Rural Roads Program : A Bumpy Ride
title_full_unstemmed	Estimating the Social Profitability of India's Rural Roads Program : A Bumpy Ride
title_sort	estimating the social profitability of india's rural roads program : a bumpy ride
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2012
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/08/16603174/estimating-social-profitability-indias-rural-roads-program-bumpy-ride http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12008
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