Connecting the Dots : Transport, Poverty, and Social Inclusion - Evidence from Armenia
This report examines the impact of rural connectivity on poverty, access to basic services, and income in Armenia, a country which has found itself in a low-growth, low-investment nexus, with stalled poverty reduction. This study attempts to shed l...
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World Bank, Yerevan
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/773451523612714208/Connecting-the-dots-transport-poverty-and-social-inclusion-evidence-from-Armenia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29751 |
| Summary: | This report examines the impact of rural
connectivity on poverty, access to basic services, and
income in Armenia, a country which has found itself in a
low-growth, low-investment nexus, with stalled poverty
reduction. This study attempts to shed light on the linkages
between transport and poverty in Armenia. The rest of the
report is structured as follows: Section 1 explains the
evolution of selected social, economic, and demographic
indicators for Armenia during the analysis period; Section 2
lays out the conceptual framework for operationalizing
shared prosperity and poverty in rural transport operations;
Section 3 proposes a systematic but non-exhaustive
collection of literature on rural road impact studies in
low- and middle-income countries; Section 4 examines
regional gaps in accessibility to markets and services which
were computed with the use of the first geographic
information system (GIS) based mapping platform of its kind
in Armenia, and introduces the potential association between
accessibility and poverty in Armenia; Section 5
characterizes key social and economic indicators in the
project’s immediate area of influence to then summarize
household-level outcomes obtained from a comprehensive
qualitative analysis and community-level findings resulting
from a nighttime lights analysis; and Section 6 summarizes
the lessons learnt and the directions for future research.
The report concludes with policy implications from this
research and directions for future analytical and
operational work on transport and poverty in Armenia. |
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