Prioritizing Job Creation without Undermining Public Works Construction among Road Improvement Projects in Rural Nicaragua

• Tác giả: Seth Garz
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 277.28 Christianity in North America Christian church in North
• Thông tin xuất bản: Taylor and Francis, 2021
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 322443
• Chủ đề: 1. PAVING; 2. PUBLIC WORKS; 3. ROAD BUILDING; 4. ROADS; 5. SOCIAL PROTECTION

Tóm tắt

 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 percentage points. The project did not increase overall employment, but was associated with an increase in working as a labourer
  though, we do not find specific substitution away from agriculture or self-employment as identified in other work. We also find impacts on education and health, extending similar findings from African and Asian regions.