Are Rural Road Investments Alone Sufficient to Generate Transport Flows? Lessons from a Randomized Experiment in Rural Malawi and Policy Implications

This paper draws lessons from an original randomized experiment in Malawi. In order to understand why roads in relatively good condition in rural areas may not be used by buses, a minibus service was subsidized over a six-month period over a distan...

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Main Authors: Raballand, Gael, Thornton, Rebecca, Yang, Dean, Goldberg, Jessica, Keleher, Niall, Muller, Annika
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
BUS
CAR
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/01/13579271/rural-road-investments-alone-sufficient-generate-transport-flows-lessons-randomized-experiment-rural-malawi-policy-implications
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19880