Gender-Specific Impacts of Road Improvement
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World Bank, Washington, DC
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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.
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GENDER INNOVATION LAB, EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC GENDER POLICY, CROP TRADE, FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLD, GENDER, FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION, WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT