How Does India's Rural Roads Program Affect the Grassroots? Findings from a Survey in Orissa
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...
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okr-10986-120122021-04-23T14:02:58Z How Does India's Rural Roads Program Affect the Grassroots? Findings from a Survey in Orissa Bell, Clive van Dillen, Susanne ACCESS TO HEALTH ACCESS TO TREATMENT ACCIDENTS AGED ANXIETY AVERAGE SPEEDS BIKES BRAIN BRIDGE BUS BUS STOP CAUSES OF DEATH CHILDBIRTH CLINICS COLDS COMMUNICABLE DISEASES COMMUNITIES COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS DESCRIPTION DIESEL DIESEL FUEL DISTRICTS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EQUALITY FAMILIES FARMING FAMILIES FEVER FIELDWORK FIXED COSTS FOCUS GROUP FOCUS GROUP INTERVIEWS FOCUS GROUPS HAZARD HEALTH CARE HIGH FEVER HIGHWAY HOSPITALS HOUSEHOLDS INCIDENCE OF DISEASE INFLUENZA INHABITANTS INSPECTION INTERMEDIARIES JOURNEY LAND USE MALARIA MARKETING MEDICAL TREATMENT MIGRATION MODAL CHOICE MODE OF TRANSPORT MORBIDITY MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY MORTALITY NATIONAL HIGHWAYS OVERCROWDING PATIENT POPULATION DENSITY PREPARATION RECONSTRUCTION RENTS ROAD ROAD CONNECTIONS ROAD NETWORK ROUND TRIP RURAL AREA RURAL COMMUNITIES RURAL ROADS SECONDARY SCHOOLS SETTLEMENT SEX SOCIAL NETWORK STD TAXIS TOLL TOWNS TRANSPORT TRANSPORT COSTS TRANSPORT INDUSTRY TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS TRAVEL TIMES TRIP TRIPS VEHICLE VILLAGE VILLAGES WEALTH 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' ones. 2012-12-21T20:22:34Z 2012-12-21T20:22:34Z 2012-08 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/08/16599745/indias-rural-roads-program-affect-grassroots-findings-survey-orissa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12012 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;6167 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research South Asia India |
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ACCESS TO HEALTH ACCESS TO TREATMENT ACCIDENTS AGED ANXIETY AVERAGE SPEEDS BIKES BRAIN BRIDGE BUS BUS STOP CAUSES OF DEATH CHILDBIRTH CLINICS COLDS COMMUNICABLE DISEASES COMMUNITIES COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS DESCRIPTION DIESEL DIESEL FUEL DISTRICTS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EQUALITY FAMILIES FARMING FAMILIES FEVER FIELDWORK FIXED COSTS FOCUS GROUP FOCUS GROUP INTERVIEWS FOCUS GROUPS HAZARD HEALTH CARE HIGH FEVER HIGHWAY HOSPITALS HOUSEHOLDS INCIDENCE OF DISEASE INFLUENZA INHABITANTS INSPECTION INTERMEDIARIES JOURNEY LAND USE MALARIA MARKETING MEDICAL TREATMENT MIGRATION MODAL CHOICE MODE OF TRANSPORT MORBIDITY MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY MORTALITY NATIONAL HIGHWAYS OVERCROWDING PATIENT POPULATION DENSITY PREPARATION RECONSTRUCTION RENTS ROAD ROAD CONNECTIONS ROAD NETWORK ROUND TRIP RURAL AREA RURAL COMMUNITIES RURAL ROADS SECONDARY SCHOOLS SETTLEMENT SEX SOCIAL NETWORK STD TAXIS TOLL TOWNS TRANSPORT TRANSPORT COSTS TRANSPORT INDUSTRY TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS TRAVEL TIMES TRIP TRIPS VEHICLE VILLAGE VILLAGES WEALTH |
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ACCESS TO HEALTH ACCESS TO TREATMENT ACCIDENTS AGED ANXIETY AVERAGE SPEEDS BIKES BRAIN BRIDGE BUS BUS STOP CAUSES OF DEATH CHILDBIRTH CLINICS COLDS COMMUNICABLE DISEASES COMMUNITIES COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS DESCRIPTION DIESEL DIESEL FUEL DISTRICTS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EQUALITY FAMILIES FARMING FAMILIES FEVER FIELDWORK FIXED COSTS FOCUS GROUP FOCUS GROUP INTERVIEWS FOCUS GROUPS HAZARD HEALTH CARE HIGH FEVER HIGHWAY HOSPITALS HOUSEHOLDS INCIDENCE OF DISEASE INFLUENZA INHABITANTS INSPECTION INTERMEDIARIES JOURNEY LAND USE MALARIA MARKETING MEDICAL TREATMENT MIGRATION MODAL CHOICE MODE OF TRANSPORT MORBIDITY MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY MORTALITY NATIONAL HIGHWAYS OVERCROWDING PATIENT POPULATION DENSITY PREPARATION RECONSTRUCTION RENTS ROAD ROAD CONNECTIONS ROAD NETWORK ROUND TRIP RURAL AREA RURAL COMMUNITIES RURAL ROADS SECONDARY SCHOOLS SETTLEMENT SEX SOCIAL NETWORK STD TAXIS TOLL TOWNS TRANSPORT TRANSPORT COSTS TRANSPORT INDUSTRY TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS TRAVEL TIMES TRIP TRIPS VEHICLE VILLAGE VILLAGES WEALTH Bell, Clive van Dillen, Susanne How Does India's Rural Roads Program Affect the Grassroots? Findings from a Survey in Orissa |
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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' ones. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
| author |
Bell, Clive van Dillen, Susanne |
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Bell, Clive van Dillen, Susanne |
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Bell, Clive |
| title |
How Does India's Rural Roads Program Affect the Grassroots? Findings from a Survey in Orissa |
| title_short |
How Does India's Rural Roads Program Affect the Grassroots? Findings from a Survey in Orissa |
| title_full |
How Does India's Rural Roads Program Affect the Grassroots? Findings from a Survey in Orissa |
| title_fullStr |
How Does India's Rural Roads Program Affect the Grassroots? Findings from a Survey in Orissa |
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How Does India's Rural Roads Program Affect the Grassroots? Findings from a Survey in Orissa |
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how does india's rural roads program affect the grassroots? findings from a survey in orissa |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2012 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/08/16599745/indias-rural-roads-program-affect-grassroots-findings-survey-orissa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12012 |
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