Highways to Success or Byways to Waste : Estimating the Economic Benefits of Roads in Africa

Roads are the arteries through which the world’s economies pulse. Roads connect sellers to markets, workers to jobs, students to education, and the sick to hospitals. Yet in much of the developing world—and particularly in Africa—adequate roads are lacking. Accordingly, investment in transportation...

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Main Authors: Ali, Rubaba, Barra, A. Federico, Berg, Claudia, Damania, Richard, Nash, John, Russ, Jason
Language:en_US
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank; and Agence Française de Développement 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22551