Language:

Creating Pro-Poor Transport : Connecting the Dots - Transport, Growth, and Poverty Reduction

CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank

Digital Resources/Online E-Resources

Citations Cited by

Actions
1. Add to My Research
2. Remove from My Research
3. E-mail
4. Print
5. Permalink
6. Citation
7. EasyBib
8. EndNote
9. RefWorks
10. Delicious
11. Export RIS
12. Export BibTeX

Title:
Creating Pro-Poor Transport : Connecting the Dots - Transport, Growth, and Poverty Reduction
Author: Alam, Muneeza Mehmood
Subjects: AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY ; BRIDGE ; BUS ; CASH CROPS ; CHRONICALLY POOR ; COMMUTING ; COSTS ; CREDIT ; ECONOMIC GROWTH ; EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES ; EXPRESSWAYS ; FARMERS ; HIGHWAY ; HIGHWAY INFRASTRUCTURE ; HIGHWAYS ; IMPACT OF TRANSPORT ; INCOME ; INCOME INEQUALITY ; INEQUALITY ; INFRASTRUCTURE ; ITS ; LABOR MARKET ; MASS TRANSPORTATION ; NATIONAL HIGHWAYS ; NATIONAL TRANSPORT ; POLICIES ; POOR ; POOR HOUSEHOLDS ; POOR PEOPLE ; POVERTY ; POVERTY REDUCTION ; PUBLIC TRANSIT ; PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEM ; PUBLIC TRANSPORT ; RAILROADS ; RAILWAYS ; RAPID TRANSIT ; ROAD ; ROAD ACCESS ; ROAD DENSITY ; ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE ; ROAD NETWORK ; ROAD QUALITY ; ROADS ; RURAL ; RURAL ROAD ; RURAL SETTINGS ; RURAL TRANSPORT ; SPECTRUM ; SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT ; TRANSIT ; TRANSIT STOPS ; TRANSIT SYSTEM ; TRANSPORT ; TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE ; TRANSPORT POLICIES ; TRANSPORTATION ; TRANSPORTATION COSTS ; TRAVEL ; TRAVEL TIME ; TRAVEL TIMES ; URBAN TRANSPORT
Description: Transport plays a crucial role in connecting people to goods and services and fostering sustainable development. The literature links improved transport infrastructure to economic growth and poverty reduction through five key mechanisms: (1) reducing transport and production costs, (2) creating jobs, (3) expanding productive capacity, (4) improving access to markets and basic services like health and education, and (5) reducing prices of final goods and services. These benefits depend on supportive conditions in other sectors, such as access to credit, functioning land markets, low trade barriers, and so on. Therefore, any assessment of potential gains from transport infrastructure and services should also account for the interaction with complementary markets. However, the analysis of such interactions, assessing how and when transport infrastructure can help reduce poverty and income inequality, is largely missing from the literature, leaving significant knowledge gaps across the spectrum of transportation settings. This note highlights existing findings and some limitations in the literature on three basic types of transport infrastructure: large projects such as regional or national highways and railroads; rural transport; and transport in urban areas.
Related Titles: Connections
Publisher: World Bank, Washington, DC
Creation Date: 2015
Language: English
Source: Open Knowledge Repository

Back to results list


INSPIRE LIBRARY - TON DUC THANG UNIVERSITY	(84-028) 37 755 057	Feedback
19 Nguyen Huu Tho St. Dist.7, HCM	thuvien@tdtu.edu.vn	Feedback

Creating Pro-Poor Transport : Connecting the Dots - Transport, Growth, and Poverty Reduction

CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank

Searching Remote Databases, Please Wait