Highways to Success or Byways to Waste : Estimating the Economic Benefits of Roads in Africa

Roads are the arteries through which the world’s economies pulse. Roads connect sellers to markets, workers to jobs, students to education, and the sick to hospitals. Yet in much of the developing world—and particularly in Africa—adequate roads are lacking. Accordingly, investment in transportation...

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Main Authors:	Ali, Rubaba, Barra, A. Federico, Berg, Claudia, Damania, Richard, Nash, John, Russ, Jason
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Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank; and Agence Française de Développement 2015
Subjects:	highways infrastructure roads waste
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22551

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spelling	okr-10986-225512021-04-23T14:04:09Z Highways to Success or Byways to Waste : Estimating the Economic Benefits of Roads in Africa Ali, Rubaba Barra, A. Federico Berg, Claudia Damania, Richard Nash, John Russ, Jason highways infrastructure roads waste Roads are the arteries through which the world’s economies pulse. Roads connect sellers to markets, workers to jobs, students to education, and the sick to hospitals. Yet in much of the developing world—and particularly in Africa—adequate roads are lacking. Accordingly, investment in transportation remains a key strategy for development agencies. Roughly $6.8 billion per year is spent in Sub-Saharan Africa on paving roads, and the World Bank invests more on roads than on education, health, and social services combined. Despite the large sums spent on transportation, there have been no assessments to determine whether these significant investments help or hinder outcomes, and the methodologies for evaluating which road projects to fund or not to fund have been disjointed and unreliable. Highways to Success or Byways to Waste: Estimating the Economic Benefits of Roads in Africa hopes to establish a new methodology for prioritizing funding that can be applied to diverse scenarios, regions, and projects. This book demonstrates how modern econometrics and geospatial techniques can be combined to analyze the latest available geo-referenced datasets at the smallest possible scale to answer some of the most important questions in development. Aimed at researchers from across the spectrum of international development, this book seeks to be a reference guide for all who seek new tools and insights into the many issues, both technical and nontechnical, of this important field. 2015-08-27T18:54:28Z 2015-08-27T18:54:28Z 2015-10 Book 978-1-4648-0654-4 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22551 en_US Africa Development Forum CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank; and Agence Française de Développement Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Publication Africa Sub-Saharan Africa
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description	Roads are the arteries through which the world’s economies pulse. Roads connect sellers to markets, workers to jobs, students to education, and the sick to hospitals. Yet in much of the developing world—and particularly in Africa—adequate roads are lacking. Accordingly, investment in transportation remains a key strategy for development agencies. Roughly $6.8 billion per year is spent in Sub-Saharan Africa on paving roads, and the World Bank invests more on roads than on education, health, and social services combined. Despite the large sums spent on transportation, there have been no assessments to determine whether these significant investments help or hinder outcomes, and the methodologies for evaluating which road projects to fund or not to fund have been disjointed and unreliable. Highways to Success or Byways to Waste: Estimating the Economic Benefits of Roads in Africa hopes to establish a new methodology for prioritizing funding that can be applied to diverse scenarios, regions, and projects. This book demonstrates how modern econometrics and geospatial techniques can be combined to analyze the latest available geo-referenced datasets at the smallest possible scale to answer some of the most important questions in development. Aimed at researchers from across the spectrum of international development, this book seeks to be a reference guide for all who seek new tools and insights into the many issues, both technical and nontechnical, of this important field.
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title	Highways to Success or Byways to Waste : Estimating the Economic Benefits of Roads in Africa
title_short	Highways to Success or Byways to Waste : Estimating the Economic Benefits of Roads in Africa
title_full	Highways to Success or Byways to Waste : Estimating the Economic Benefits of Roads in Africa
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Highways to Success or Byways to Waste : Estimating the Economic Benefits of Roads in Africa

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