How Does India's Rural Roads Program Affect the Grassroots? : Findings from a Survey in Orissa / Clive Bell
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2012Description: Online-Ressource (39 p)Additional physical formats: Bell, Clive: How Does India's Rural Roads Program Affect the Grassroots? DOI: DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6167Online resources: Summary: This paper analyzes the effects of all-weather rural roads on households' net output prices, education and health in a poor, drought-prone region of India. Of 30 villages originally surveyed in 2001-02, when two had such roads, a further nine received them between January 2007 and December 2009 under the program Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana. Cross-section comparisons involving all villages and ‘before and after’ comparisons in the nine yielded these findings: (i) net output prices were 5 per cent or more higher; (ii) substantially fewer days of schooling were lost due to bad weather, largely because teachers had fewer absences; (iii) the acutely sick received more timely treatment and were more likely to be treated in a hospital than in the nearest primary health clinic; and (iv) the respondents ranked the resulting benefits in the domains of health and education at least as highly as the ‘commercial’ onesPPN: PPN: 834975475Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-WBA | ZDB-110-WBLNo physical items for this record
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