Holdings: How Does India's Rural Roads Program Affect the Grassroots? Findings from a Survey in Orissa

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How Does India's Rural Roads Program Affect the Grassroots? Findings from a Survey in Orissa

This paper analyzes the effects of all-weather rural roads on households' net output prices, education and health in a poor, drought-prone region of India. Of 30 villages originally surveyed in 2001-02, when two had such roads, a further nine...

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Main Authors:	Bell, Clive, van Dillen, Susanne
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ACCESS TO HEALTH ACCESS TO TREATMENT ACCIDENTS AGED ANXIETY AVERAGE SPEEDS BIKES BRAIN BRIDGE BUS BUS STOP CAUSES OF DEATH CHILDBIRTH CLINICS COLDS COMMUNICABLE DISEASES COMMUNITIES COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS DESCRIPTION DIESEL DIESEL FUEL DISTRICTS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EQUALITY FAMILIES FARMING FAMILIES FEVER FIELDWORK FIXED COSTS FOCUS GROUP FOCUS GROUP INTERVIEWS FOCUS GROUPS HAZARD HEALTH CARE HIGH FEVER HIGHWAY HOSPITALS HOUSEHOLDS INCIDENCE OF DISEASE INFLUENZA INHABITANTS INSPECTION INTERMEDIARIES JOURNEY LAND USE MALARIA MARKETING MEDICAL TREATMENT MIGRATION MODAL CHOICE MODE OF TRANSPORT MORBIDITY MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY MORTALITY NATIONAL HIGHWAYS OVERCROWDING PATIENT POPULATION DENSITY PREPARATION RECONSTRUCTION RENTS ROAD ROAD CONNECTIONS ROAD NETWORK ROUND TRIP RURAL AREA RURAL COMMUNITIES RURAL ROADS SECONDARY SCHOOLS SETTLEMENT SEX SOCIAL NETWORK STD TAXIS TOLL TOWNS TRANSPORT TRANSPORT COSTS TRANSPORT INDUSTRY TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS TRAVEL TIMES TRIP TRIPS VEHICLE VILLAGE VILLAGES WEALTH
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/08/16599745/indias-rural-roads-program-affect-grassroots-findings-survey-orissa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12012

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/08/16599745/indias-rural-roads-program-affect-grassroots-findings-survey-orissa
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12012