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Rural Transport : Improving its Contribution to Growth and Poverty Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa

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dc.contributor.authorBanjo, George
dc.contributor.authorGordon, Henry
dc.contributor.authorRiverson, John
dc.date.accessioned2014-04-15T20:40:11Z
dc.date.available2014-04-15T20:40:11Z
dc.date.issued2012-11
dc.description.abstractPoverty reduction is a long-standing development objective of many developing countries and their aid donors, including the World Bank. To achieve this goal, these countries and organizations have sought to improve smallholder agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as part of a broader rural development agenda aimed at providing a minimal basket of goods and services in rural areas to satisfy basic human needs. These goods and services include not only food, health care, and education, but also infrastructure. As a result, rural transport remains a constraint to increasing agricultural productivity, achieving rural growth, and thus alleviating rural poverty. The first major finding of the review of rural transport theory and practice is that many of the approaches needed to improve the impact of rural transport interventions on poverty reduction are known, particularly from the work of the Rural Travel and Transport Program (RTTP) of Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP). Unfortunately, many of the recommended approaches remain untested within Sub-Saharan Africa beyond the pilot scale, notwithstanding their influence on rural transport policy and project design in other operational regions of the Bank. For SSA, these are missed opportunities. Even where SSA countries have applied these approaches, institutional and financial sustainability and scaling up local successes remain significant challenges for both their agriculture and transport sectors. The second key finding is that rural households are rarely the point of focus in the design of rural transport interventions in SSA, even though a methodology to allow this focus has been developed and successfully tested in several pilot projects since the 1980s, the result is that the transport needs of rural households continue to be analyzed and understood by means of an indirect assessment of those needs, which means that most projects have a less than desirable impact on improving the rural access and mobility situation of such households.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/11/17893758/rural-transport-improving-contribution-growth-poverty-reduction-sub-saharan-africa
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/17807
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/17807
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP) working paper;no. 93
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectACCESS ROADS
dc.subjectACCESSIBILITY
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL FRONTIER
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL GROWTH
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL INNOVATION
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL PRACTICES
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL PRODUCE
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL SECTOR
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGIES
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY
dc.subjectAID DONORS
dc.subjectBETTER ACCESS TO MARKETS
dc.subjectCAPACITY BUILDING
dc.subjectCASH CROPS
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectCOMMERCIAL CROPS
dc.subjectCONSUMPTION SMOOTHING
dc.subjectCOSTS OF TRANSPORT
dc.subjectDIMENSIONS OF POVERTY
dc.subjectDIVERSIFICATION
dc.subjectDRIVING
dc.subjectDROUGHT
dc.subjectECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectECONOMIES OF SCALE
dc.subjectEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
dc.subjectFARM GROWTH
dc.subjectFARM HOUSEHOLDS
dc.subjectFARM INCOME
dc.subjectFARM INCOMES
dc.subjectFARM PRODUCTION
dc.subjectFARM PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectFARM SECTOR
dc.subjectFARMER
dc.subjectFARMERS
dc.subjectFARMING SYSTEMS
dc.subjectFOOD CROPS
dc.subjectFOOD IMPORTS
dc.subjectFOOD INSECURITY
dc.subjectFOOD MARKETS
dc.subjectFOOD POLICY
dc.subjectFOOD PRICE
dc.subjectFOOD PRODUCTION
dc.subjectFOOD SECURITY
dc.subjectHIGH TRANSPORT
dc.subjectHIGHWAYS
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD SIZE
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD SURVEY
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD TRAVEL
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD WELFARE
dc.subjectHUMAN CAPITAL
dc.subjectHUMAN DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectIMPACT OF TRANSPORT
dc.subjectIMPACT ON POVERTY
dc.subjectINCOME FROM EDUCATION
dc.subjectINCOME GROWTH
dc.subjectINCOME POVERTY
dc.subjectINCOME-GENERATING ACTIVITIES
dc.subjectINEQUALITY
dc.subjectINFANT MORTALITY
dc.subjectINFANT MORTALITY RATE
dc.subjectINFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectINFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT
dc.subjectINFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING
dc.subjectINSURANCE
dc.subjectINVESTMENT IN ROADS
dc.subjectIRRIGATION
dc.subjectLIVESTOCK DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectLOCAL TRANSPORT
dc.subjectMEANS OF TRANSPORT
dc.subjectMOBILITY
dc.subjectNATIONAL POVERTY
dc.subjectNATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
dc.subjectNONFARM INCOME
dc.subjectNUTRITION
dc.subjectO&M
dc.subjectPOLITICAL INFLUENCE
dc.subjectPOOR COUNTRIES
dc.subjectPOOR HOUSEHOLDS
dc.subjectPOOR PEOPLE
dc.subjectPOPULATION DENSITIES
dc.subjectPOPULATION DENSITY
dc.subjectPOPULATION GROWTH
dc.subjectPOVERTY ALLEVIATION
dc.subjectPOVERTY FOCUS
dc.subjectPOVERTY INCIDENCE
dc.subjectPOVERTY LEVELS
dc.subjectPOVERTY POVERTY
dc.subjectPOVERTY RATES
dc.subjectPOVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subjectPOVERTY REDUCTION EFFORTS
dc.subjectPOVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES
dc.subjectPOVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY
dc.subjectPOVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER
dc.subjectPOVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPERS
dc.subjectPUBLIC EXPENDITURE PROGRAMS
dc.subjectPUBLIC SAFETY
dc.subjectPUBLIC SAFETY NETS
dc.subjectPUBLIC WORKS
dc.subjectREGIONAL INTEGRATION
dc.subjectREGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
dc.subjectRESETTLEMENT
dc.subjectRISK MANAGEMENT
dc.subjectROAD
dc.subjectROAD IMPROVEMENTS
dc.subjectROAD INFRASTRUCTURE
dc.subjectROAD MAINTENANCE
dc.subjectROAD NETWORK
dc.subjectROAD SECTOR
dc.subjectROAD TRANSPORT
dc.subjectROADS
dc.subjectROUTES
dc.subjectRURAL
dc.subjectRURAL ACCESS
dc.subjectRURAL AREAS
dc.subjectRURAL COMMUNITIES
dc.subjectRURAL COMMUNITY
dc.subjectRURAL CONCERNS
dc.subjectRURAL DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectRURAL DISPARITIES
dc.subjectRURAL DWELLERS
dc.subjectRURAL ECONOMY
dc.subjectRURAL FARM
dc.subjectRURAL GROWTH
dc.subjectRURAL HOUSEHOLD
dc.subjectRURAL HOUSEHOLD INCOME
dc.subjectRURAL HOUSEHOLDS
dc.subjectRURAL INCOME
dc.subjectRURAL INCOMES
dc.subjectRURAL INEQUALITIES
dc.subjectRURAL INFRASTRUCTURE
dc.subjectRURAL INFRASTRUCTURE PORTFOLIO
dc.subjectRURAL INSTITUTIONS
dc.subjectRURAL INVESTMENT
dc.subjectRURAL ISSUES
dc.subjectRURAL LABOR
dc.subjectRURAL LABOR MARKET
dc.subjectRURAL LIVELIHOODS
dc.subjectRURAL PEOPLE
dc.subjectRURAL POOR
dc.subjectRURAL POVERTY
dc.subjectRURAL POVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subjectRURAL PROJECTS
dc.subjectRURAL PUBLIC
dc.subjectRURAL ROAD
dc.subjectRURAL ROADS
dc.subjectRURAL SECTOR
dc.subjectRURAL SERVICE
dc.subjectRURAL SERVICE DELIVERY
dc.subjectRURAL SETTINGS
dc.subjectRURAL STRATEGY
dc.subjectRURAL TRANSPORT
dc.subjectRURAL TRANSPORT ACTIVITIES
dc.subjectRURAL TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE
dc.subjectRURAL TRAVEL
dc.subjectSAFETY
dc.subjectSANITATION
dc.subjectSMALL FARMERS
dc.subjectSMALL-SCALE AGRICULTURE
dc.subjectSMALLHOLDER AGRICULTURE
dc.subjectSMALLHOLDER FARMERS
dc.subjectSMALLHOLDER FARMS
dc.subjectSOCIAL SAFETY NETS
dc.subjectSPATIAL CONSIDERATIONS
dc.subjectSTRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT
dc.subjectSUBSISTENCE
dc.subjectSUBSISTENCE FARMERS
dc.subjectTECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
dc.subjectTRAFFIC
dc.subjectTRANSACTION COSTS
dc.subjectTRANSPORT ACTIVITIES
dc.subjectTRANSPORT ACTIVITY
dc.subjectTRANSPORT COSTS
dc.subjectTRANSPORT DEMAND
dc.subjectTRANSPORT IMPROVEMENT
dc.subjectTRANSPORT IMPROVEMENTS
dc.subjectTRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE
dc.subjectTRANSPORT INVESTMENTS
dc.subjectTRANSPORT NETWORK
dc.subjectTRANSPORT PLANNING
dc.subjectTRANSPORT POLICIES
dc.subjectTRANSPORT POLICY
dc.subjectTRANSPORT POLICY DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectTRANSPORT PROJECTS
dc.subjectTRANSPORT RESEARCH
dc.subjectTRANSPORT SECTOR
dc.subjectTRANSPORT SERVICE
dc.subjectTRANSPORT SERVICES
dc.subjectTRANSPORT STRATEGIES
dc.subjectTRANSPORT STRATEGY
dc.subjectTRANSPORT SYSTEM
dc.subjectTRANSPORT SYSTEM EFFICIENCY
dc.subjectTRANSPORT SYSTEMS
dc.subjectTRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES
dc.subjectTRANSPORTATION
dc.subjectTRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING
dc.subjectTRANSPORTS
dc.subjectTRAVEL DEMAND
dc.subjectTRAVELERS
dc.subjectVEHICLES
dc.titleRural Transport : Improving its Contribution to Growth and Poverty Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africaen
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okr.date.disclosure2013-06-20
okr.date.doiregistration2025-05-05T11:34:48.406980Z
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Working Paper
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/11/17893758/rural-transport-improving-contribution-growth-poverty-reduction-sub-saharan-africa
okr.globalpracticeMacroeconomics and Fiscal Management
okr.globalpracticeSocial, Urban, Rural and Resilience
okr.globalpracticeTransport and ICT
okr.globalpracticePoverty
okr.guid635271468193136281
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum000356161_20130620151828
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum17893758
okr.identifier.report78676
okr.language.supporteden
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okr.region.administrativeAfrica
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Rural Poverty Reduction
okr.topicTransport Economics Policy and Planning
okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth::Regional Economic Development
okr.topicRural Development::Regional Rural Development
okr.topicTransport
okr.unitTransport Practice Group (AFTTR)
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