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

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dc.creatorGarz, Seth
dc.creatorPerova, Elizaveta
dc.date2021-07-22T16:33:40Z
dc.date2021-07-22T16:33:40Z
dc.date2021-04-20
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:37:23Z
dc.descriptionWe 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.
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dc.identifierJournal of Development Effectiveness
dc.identifier1943-9342
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/36012
dc.identifier10.1596/36012
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/407587
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectSOCIAL PROTECTION
dc.subjectPUBLIC WORKS
dc.subjectROAD BUILDING
dc.subjectROADS
dc.subjectPAVING
dc.subjectLABOR-INTENSIVE WORK
dc.titlePrioritizing Job Creation without Undermining Public Works Construction among Road Improvement Projects in Rural Nicaragua
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.typeArticle de journal
dc.typeArtículo de revista

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