Gender-Specific Impacts of Road Improvement : What Can Be Done to Ensure that Better Roads Expand Economic Opportunities for All?

Gender-Specific Impacts of Road Improvement : What Can Be Done to Ensure that Better Roads Expand Economic Opportunities for All?

How and why do the benefits of better transport differ between genders? A non-experimental impact evaluation of a large-scale rural roads project in Vietnam combined with qualitative data collection suggests some possibilities. While roads improve...

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Main Author: World Bank
Format: Brief
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:
GENDER INNOVATION LAB
EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC GENDER POLICY
CROP TRADE
FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLD
GENDER
FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION
WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/378151584037475152/Gender-Specific-Impacts-of-Road-Improvement-What-Can-Be-Done-to-Ensure-that-Better-Roads-Expand-Economic-Opportunities-for-All
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spelling okr-10986-334352021-05-25T10:54:41Z Gender-Specific Impacts of Road Improvement : What Can Be Done to Ensure that Better Roads Expand Economic Opportunities for All? World Bank GENDER INNOVATION LAB EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC GENDER POLICY CROP TRADE FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLD GENDER FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT How and why do the benefits of better transport differ between genders? A non-experimental impact evaluation of a large-scale rural roads project in Vietnam combined with qualitative data collection suggests some possibilities. While roads improve trading opportunities for all households, only households headed by men are able to increase agricultural output and income. Lower levels of household labor and capital in female-headed households seems to constrain their ability to make similar changes. The implications for policy are that coordinating transport investments with complementary development programs can address constraints faced by female-headed and poor households and improve the benefits of better transport for them. 2020-03-16T16:44:54Z 2020-03-16T16:44:54Z 2020-03 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/378151584037475152/Gender-Specific-Impacts-of-Road-Improvement-What-Can-Be-Done-to-Ensure-that-Better-Roads-Expand-Economic-Opportunities-for-All http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33435 English East Asia and Pacific Gender Policy Brief;No. 8 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief East Asia and Pacific
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topic GENDER INNOVATION LAB
EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC GENDER POLICY
CROP TRADE
FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLD
GENDER
FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION
WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT
spellingShingle GENDER INNOVATION LAB
EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC GENDER POLICY
CROP TRADE
FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLD
GENDER
FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION
WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT
World Bank
Gender-Specific Impacts of Road Improvement : What Can Be Done to Ensure that Better Roads Expand Economic Opportunities for All?
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relation East Asia and Pacific Gender Policy Brief;No. 8
description How and why do the benefits of better transport differ between genders? A non-experimental impact evaluation of a large-scale rural roads project in Vietnam combined with qualitative data collection suggests some possibilities. While roads improve trading opportunities for all households, only households headed by men are able to increase agricultural output and income. Lower levels of household labor and capital in female-headed households seems to constrain their ability to make similar changes. The implications for policy are that coordinating transport investments with complementary development programs can address constraints faced by female-headed and poor households and improve the benefits of better transport for them.
format Brief
author World Bank
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title Gender-Specific Impacts of Road Improvement : What Can Be Done to Ensure that Better Roads Expand Economic Opportunities for All?
title_short Gender-Specific Impacts of Road Improvement : What Can Be Done to Ensure that Better Roads Expand Economic Opportunities for All?
title_full Gender-Specific Impacts of Road Improvement : What Can Be Done to Ensure that Better Roads Expand Economic Opportunities for All?
title_fullStr Gender-Specific Impacts of Road Improvement : What Can Be Done to Ensure that Better Roads Expand Economic Opportunities for All?
title_full_unstemmed Gender-Specific Impacts of Road Improvement : What Can Be Done to Ensure that Better Roads Expand Economic Opportunities for All?
title_sort gender-specific impacts of road improvement : what can be done to ensure that better roads expand economic opportunities for all?
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/378151584037475152/Gender-Specific-Impacts-of-Road-Improvement-What-Can-Be-Done-to-Ensure-that-Better-Roads-Expand-Economic-Opportunities-for-All
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