Choosing Rural Road Investments to Help Reduce Poverty
The author examines how rural road investment projects should be selected and appraised when the objective is poverty reduction. After critically reviewing past and current practices, the author develops an operational approach grounded in a public...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/10/693023/choosing-rural-road-investments-help-reduce-poverty http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19782 |
| Summary: | The author examines how rural road
investment projects should be selected and appraised when
the objective is poverty reduction. After critically
reviewing past and current practices, the author develops an
operational approach grounded in a public economics
framework in which concerns of equity and efficiency are
inseparable, information is incomplete in important ways,
and resources are limited. She addresses a key problem: that
an important share of the benefits to the poor from rural
roads cannot be measured in monetary terms. The selction
formula she proposes aims to identify places where poverty
and economic potential are high and access is low. She
illustrates the method using data for and project experience
in Vietnam. Among the advantages of proceeding as outlined
in her proposal: This approach holds the hope of building
capacity and is participatory; it extracts local information
that may not be readily available to the central government;
and it appears to be feasible because it relies on local
authorities participating in the appraisal of subprojects. |
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