Access to Markets and the Benefits of Rural Roads
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9706790 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hanan G Jacoby (0000-0002-7061-4425, World Bank, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 110 |
| Issue | 465 |
| Pages | 713-737 |
| Publication date | 2000-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-0297.00562 |
| OpenAlex | W1535572936 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 96 |
Roads play a central role in rural development, yet little is known about the size and distribution of benefits from such investments. This paper develops a method for estimating household-level benefits from road projects using the relationship between the value of farmland and its distance to agricultural markets. The empirical analysis, using data from Nepal, suggests that providing extensive road access to markets would confer substantial benefits on average, much of these going to poor households. However, the benefits would not be large enough or targeted efficiently enough to appreciably reduce income inequality in the population
Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Business · Distribution (mathematics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Household income · Inequality · Magic bullet · Natural resource economics · Per capita · Poverty · Rural area · Rural poverty · Value (mathematics · Welfare · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Global trade and economics
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| Unique citing works | 96 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 96 |