Rural Road Investment Efficiency: Lessons from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and Uganda

by Gael Raballand and Patricia Macchi

The development aid community has placed a great deal of emphasis on the need for rural mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Thus far, most development partners and governments in SSA have relied on two overarching assumptions when dispensing transport aid--that most households in rural areas in Africa are not connected to markets and therefore need a road passable for a truck, and that roads with high levels of service are crucial in order to achieve...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821382144
• ISBN13: 9780821382141
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"