The Poverty Impact of Rural Roads: Evidence from Bangladesh

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dc.creatorBakht, Zaid
dc.creatorKhandker, Shahidur R.
dc.creatorKoolwal, Gayatri B.
dc.date2012-03-30T07:28:54Z
dc.date2012-03-30T07:28:54Z
dc.date2009
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T01:29:31Z
dc.descriptionA rationale for public investment in rural roads is that households can better exploit agricultural and nonagricultural opportunities to employ labor and capital more efficiently. Significant knowledge gaps persist, however, as to how opportunities provided by roads actually filter back into household outcomes as well as distributional consequences. This study examines the impacts of two rural road-paving projects in Bangladesh using a new quasi-experimental household panel data set surveying project and control villages before and after program implementation. A household panel fixed-effects methodology controlling for initial area conditions is used to estimate the impact of paved roads on household and individual outcomes and account for potential bias in program placement at the village level. Rural road investments are found to reduce poverty significantly through higher agricultural production, lower input and transportation costs, and higher agricultural output prices at local village markets. Rural road development has also led to higher secondary schooling enrollment for boys and girls, as compared to primary school enrollment. We find that road investments have also benefited the poor, meaning the gains are significant for the poor and in some cases disproportionately higher than for the nonpoor.
dc.description1
dc.identifierEconomic Development and Cultural Change
dc.identifier00130079
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/4627
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/418570
dc.languageEN
dc.relationhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectMicroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development O120
dc.subjectEconomic Development: Agriculture
dc.subjectNatural Resources
dc.subjectEnergy
dc.subjectEnvironment
dc.subjectOther Primary Products O130
dc.subjectEconomic Development: Human Resources
dc.subjectHuman Development
dc.subjectIncome Distribution
dc.subjectMigration O150
dc.subjectEconomic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses
dc.subjectTransportation O180
dc.subjectAgriculture: Aggregate Supply and Demand Analysis
dc.subjectPrices Q110
dc.subjectTransportation Systems: Government and Private Investment Analysis
dc.subjectRoad Maintenance, Transportation Planning R420
dc.titleThe Poverty Impact of Rural Roads: Evidence from Bangladesh
dc.titleEconomic Development and Cultural Change
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.typeArticle de journal
dc.typeArtículo de revista

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