Prioritizing Job Creation without Undermining Public Works Construction among Road Improvement Projects in Rural Nicaragua
We evaluate the impacts of a road rehabilitation workfare project in Nicaragua. Our results reveal that the substitution of labour-intensive manual paving of dirt roads for commercial paving technology did not undermine the primary goal of increasing access to a paved road, which grew by 16.4 percen...
Main Authors: | Garz, Seth, Perova, Elizaveta |
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Format: | Journal Article |
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Taylor and Francis
2021
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36012 |
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