Choosing Rural Road Investments to Help Reduce Poverty

• Tác giả: Dominique Van de Walle
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 362.57 Measures to prevent, protect against, limit effects of poverty
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2014
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 317817
• Chủ đề: 1. AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT; 2. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; 3. BASIC ACCESS; 4. BENCHMARK; 5. BENEFIT ANALYSIS

Tóm tắt

 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.