Improving Institutional Capability and Financial Viability to Sustain Transport : An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support since 2002
The services provided by investments in road networks, railways and transit systems, and ports for trade by air and water are important contributors to poverty alleviation and economic growth. Sustained transport investments can support poverty red...
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/03/17648445/improving-institutional-capability-financial-viability-sustain-transport-evaluation-world-bank-group-support-2002 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13823 |
| Summary: | The services provided by investments in
road networks, railways and transit systems, and ports for
trade by air and water are important contributors to poverty
alleviation and economic growth. Sustained transport
investments can support poverty reduction directly, in terms
of improving access and thus economic opportunity targeted
to the rural poor, and through facilitating broad-based
growth. But the impact of infrastructure investments and the
services that arise from them can be undermined by poor
operations and maintenance. The objective of this evaluation
is to assess the effectiveness of Bank group support to
countries in sustaining the provision of transport
infrastructure and services and to distill lessons on the
factors contributing to sustained transport. In the context
of this evaluation sustained provision of infrastructure and
services is defined as the extent to which the policies,
institutional and regulatory framework, sector management
capacity, and financial arrangements are in place to ensure
that transport infrastructure is operated and maintained,
enabling a reliable flow of services over the long term. The
term transport is used throughout this report to mean
transport infrastructure and services, unless otherwise specified. |
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