How does India’s rural roads program affect the grassroots?

• Verfasst von: Bell, Clive [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Dillen, Susanne van [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: How does India’s rural roads program affect the grassroots?
• Titelzusatz: findings from a survey in upland Orissa
• Verf.angabe: Clive Bell, and Susanne van Dillen
• Jahr: 2014
• Umfang: 23 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 11.09.2020
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Land economics
• Ort Quelle: Madison, Wis. : Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1948
• Jahr Quelle: 2014
• Band/Heft Quelle: 90(2014), 2, Seite 372-394
• ISSN Quelle: 1543-8325
• DOI: doi:10.3368/le.90.2.372
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Bell, Clive, 1943 - : How does India's rural roads program affect the grassroots?. - 2014
• K10plus-PPN: 1730519873

Abstract

This paper analyzes the effects of all weather rural roads on households’ net output prices, education, and health in a poor region of India. Cross-section and before-and-after comparisons yield these findings: (1) net output prices were 5% or more higher; (2) fewer days of schooling were lost due to bad weather, largely because teachers had fewer absences; (3) the acutely sick received timelier treatment and more frequently in a hospital than the nearest primary clinic; and (4) respondents ranked the resulting benefits in the domains of health and education at least as highly as the “commercial” ones. (JEL O12, O18)