Creating Pro-Poor Transport : Connecting the Dots - Transport, Growth, and Poverty Reduction
Transport plays a crucial role in connecting people to goods and services and fostering sustainable development. The literature links improved transport infrastructure to economic growth and poverty reduction through five key mechanisms: (1) reduci...
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okr-10986-250032021-04-23T14:04:28Z Creating Pro-Poor Transport : Connecting the Dots - Transport, Growth, and Poverty Reduction Alam, Muneeza Mehmood URBAN TRANSPORT BUS SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT PUBLIC TRANSIT ECONOMIC GROWTH TRAVEL TRANSPORTATION ITS TRANSIT POLICIES TRANSIT STOPS INCOME TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE CHRONICALLY POOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES TRANSPORTATION COSTS RAPID TRANSIT CREDIT COMMUTING NATIONAL TRANSPORT MASS TRANSPORTATION SPECTRUM RURAL SETTINGS RURAL TRANSPORT PUBLIC TRANSPORT POOR PEOPLE RURAL ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE NATIONAL HIGHWAYS HIGHWAYS ROAD DENSITY BRIDGE HIGHWAY INFRASTRUCTURE ROADS POVERTY REDUCTION HIGHWAY RAILWAYS LABOR MARKET ROAD COSTS CASH CROPS ROAD ACCESS ROAD NETWORK TRANSPORT IMPACT OF TRANSPORT POVERTY RAILROADS INCOME INEQUALITY AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY RURAL ROAD POOR PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEM FARMERS TRAVEL TIMES TRAVEL TIME TRANSPORT POLICIES ROAD QUALITY TRANSIT SYSTEM INFRASTRUCTURE EXPRESSWAYS INEQUALITY POOR HOUSEHOLDS Transport plays a crucial role in connecting people to goods and services and fostering sustainable development. The literature links improved transport infrastructure to economic growth and poverty reduction through five key mechanisms: (1) reducing transport and production costs, (2) creating jobs, (3) expanding productive capacity, (4) improving access to markets and basic services like health and education, and (5) reducing prices of final goods and services. These benefits depend on supportive conditions in other sectors, such as access to credit, functioning land markets, low trade barriers, and so on. Therefore, any assessment of potential gains from transport infrastructure and services should also account for the interaction with complementary markets. However, the analysis of such interactions, assessing how and when transport infrastructure can help reduce poverty and income inequality, is largely missing from the literature, leaving significant knowledge gaps across the spectrum of transportation settings. This note highlights existing findings and some limitations in the literature on three basic types of transport infrastructure: large projects such as regional or national highways and railroads; rural transport; and transport in urban areas. 2016-09-06T19:04:36Z 2016-09-06T19:04:36Z 2015-10 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/01/25793499/creating-pro-poor-transport-connecting-dots-transport-growth-poverty-reduction http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25003 English en_US Connections;No. 24 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief |
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URBAN TRANSPORT BUS SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT PUBLIC TRANSIT ECONOMIC GROWTH TRAVEL TRANSPORTATION ITS TRANSIT POLICIES TRANSIT STOPS INCOME TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE CHRONICALLY POOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES TRANSPORTATION COSTS RAPID TRANSIT CREDIT COMMUTING NATIONAL TRANSPORT MASS TRANSPORTATION SPECTRUM RURAL SETTINGS RURAL TRANSPORT PUBLIC TRANSPORT POOR PEOPLE RURAL ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE NATIONAL HIGHWAYS HIGHWAYS ROAD DENSITY BRIDGE HIGHWAY INFRASTRUCTURE ROADS POVERTY REDUCTION HIGHWAY RAILWAYS LABOR MARKET ROAD COSTS CASH CROPS ROAD ACCESS ROAD NETWORK TRANSPORT IMPACT OF TRANSPORT POVERTY RAILROADS INCOME INEQUALITY AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY RURAL ROAD POOR PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEM FARMERS TRAVEL TIMES TRAVEL TIME TRANSPORT POLICIES ROAD QUALITY TRANSIT SYSTEM INFRASTRUCTURE EXPRESSWAYS INEQUALITY POOR HOUSEHOLDS |
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URBAN TRANSPORT BUS SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT PUBLIC TRANSIT ECONOMIC GROWTH TRAVEL TRANSPORTATION ITS TRANSIT POLICIES TRANSIT STOPS INCOME TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE CHRONICALLY POOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES TRANSPORTATION COSTS RAPID TRANSIT CREDIT COMMUTING NATIONAL TRANSPORT MASS TRANSPORTATION SPECTRUM RURAL SETTINGS RURAL TRANSPORT PUBLIC TRANSPORT POOR PEOPLE RURAL ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE NATIONAL HIGHWAYS HIGHWAYS ROAD DENSITY BRIDGE HIGHWAY INFRASTRUCTURE ROADS POVERTY REDUCTION HIGHWAY RAILWAYS LABOR MARKET ROAD COSTS CASH CROPS ROAD ACCESS ROAD NETWORK TRANSPORT IMPACT OF TRANSPORT POVERTY RAILROADS INCOME INEQUALITY AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY RURAL ROAD POOR PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEM FARMERS TRAVEL TIMES TRAVEL TIME TRANSPORT POLICIES ROAD QUALITY TRANSIT SYSTEM INFRASTRUCTURE EXPRESSWAYS INEQUALITY POOR HOUSEHOLDS Alam, Muneeza Mehmood Creating Pro-Poor Transport : Connecting the Dots - Transport, Growth, and Poverty Reduction |
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Transport plays a crucial role in
connecting people to goods and services and fostering
sustainable development. The literature links improved
transport infrastructure to economic growth and poverty
reduction through five key mechanisms: (1) reducing
transport and production costs, (2) creating jobs, (3)
expanding productive capacity, (4) improving access to
markets and basic services like health and education, and
(5) reducing prices of final goods and services. These
benefits depend on supportive conditions in other sectors,
such as access to credit, functioning land markets, low
trade barriers, and so on. Therefore, any assessment of
potential gains from transport infrastructure and services
should also account for the interaction with complementary
markets. However, the analysis of such interactions,
assessing how and when transport infrastructure can help
reduce poverty and income inequality, is largely missing
from the literature, leaving significant knowledge gaps
across the spectrum of transportation settings. This note
highlights existing findings and some limitations in the
literature on three basic types of transport infrastructure:
large projects such as regional or national highways and
railroads; rural transport; and transport in urban areas. |
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Alam, Muneeza Mehmood |
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Alam, Muneeza Mehmood |
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Alam, Muneeza Mehmood |
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Creating Pro-Poor Transport : Connecting the Dots - Transport, Growth, and Poverty Reduction |
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Creating Pro-Poor Transport : Connecting the Dots - Transport, Growth, and Poverty Reduction |
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Creating Pro-Poor Transport : Connecting the Dots - Transport, Growth, and Poverty Reduction |
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Creating Pro-Poor Transport : Connecting the Dots - Transport, Growth, and Poverty Reduction |
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Creating Pro-Poor Transport : Connecting the Dots - Transport, Growth, and Poverty Reduction |
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creating pro-poor transport : connecting the dots - transport, growth, and poverty reduction |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2016 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/01/25793499/creating-pro-poor-transport-connecting-dots-transport-growth-poverty-reduction http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25003 |
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