Rural Roads and Local Market Development in Vietnam

We assess impacts of rural road rehabilitation on market development at the commune level in rural Vietnam and examine the geographic, community, and household covariates of impact. Double difference and matching methods are used to address sources of selection bias in identifying impacts. The resul...

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Main Authors: Mu, Ren, van de Walle, Dominique
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Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4786
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spelling okr-10986-47862021-04-23T14:02:19Z Rural Roads and Local Market Development in Vietnam Mu, Ren van de Walle, Dominique Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development O120 Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses Transportation O180 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics P250 Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: Consumer Economics Health Education and Training: Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty P360 Transportation Systems: Government and Private Investment Analysis Road Maintenance, Transportation Planning R420 We assess impacts of rural road rehabilitation on market development at the commune level in rural Vietnam and examine the geographic, community, and household covariates of impact. Double difference and matching methods are used to address sources of selection bias in identifying impacts. The results point to significant average impacts on the development of local markets. There is also evidence of considerable impact heterogeneity, with a tendency for poorer communes to have higher impacts due to lower levels of initial market development. Yet, some poor areas are also saddled with other attributes that reduce those impacts. 2012-03-30T07:29:44Z 2012-03-30T07:29:44Z 2011 Journal Article Journal of Development Studies 00220388 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4786 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Vietnam
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topic Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development O120
Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses
Transportation O180
Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics P250
Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: Consumer Economics
Health
Education and Training: Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty P360
Transportation Systems: Government and Private Investment Analysis
Road Maintenance, Transportation Planning R420
spellingShingle Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development O120
Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses
Transportation O180
Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics P250
Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: Consumer Economics
Health
Education and Training: Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty P360
Transportation Systems: Government and Private Investment Analysis
Road Maintenance, Transportation Planning R420
Mu, Ren
van de Walle, Dominique
Rural Roads and Local Market Development in Vietnam
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description We assess impacts of rural road rehabilitation on market development at the commune level in rural Vietnam and examine the geographic, community, and household covariates of impact. Double difference and matching methods are used to address sources of selection bias in identifying impacts. The results point to significant average impacts on the development of local markets. There is also evidence of considerable impact heterogeneity, with a tendency for poorer communes to have higher impacts due to lower levels of initial market development. Yet, some poor areas are also saddled with other attributes that reduce those impacts.
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author Mu, Ren
van de Walle, Dominique
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van de Walle, Dominique
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title Rural Roads and Local Market Development in Vietnam
title_short Rural Roads and Local Market Development in Vietnam
title_full Rural Roads and Local Market Development in Vietnam
title_fullStr Rural Roads and Local Market Development in Vietnam
title_full_unstemmed Rural Roads and Local Market Development in Vietnam
title_sort rural roads and local market development in vietnam
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