Rural Infrastructure from a World Bank Perspective: A Knowledge Management FrameworkWorld Bank Publications, 1999 - 58 sider "Rural infrastructure is critical to both economic and social development. Its absence thwarts growth and, typically, the poor are those hurt the most. The purpose of this paper is to serve as a basis for knowledge management on rural infrastructure." In the 1970s, the primary, if not the unique, objective of rural infrastructure lending was to get rural infrastructure built. However, the institutional aspects of how this infrastructure was to be built, and later how it would be operated and maintained, did not receive much attention. Only recently has poverty alleviation through employment creation become an explicit objective of rural infrastructure investments. This review tracks the poverty alleviation objective of rural infrastructure projects using three criteria: 1. whether poverty was an explicit criterion in the selection of specific sub-projects; 2. whether poverty was addressed in the pricing of rural infrastructure services; and 3. whether poverty was addressed through the creation of employment. |
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achieve Addis Ababa addressed agricultural Antananarivo approach areas Bangladesh Bank's beneficiaries Botswana budgeting Burkina Faso central Chef commitment constraints construction contractors Cote d'Ivoire country teams decentralization Directeur Général economic efficiency equipment fiscal Ghana Grameen Bank Harare highway impact important improving increase infrastructure projects Institutional Reform issues jects Kenya lending Libreville maintenance and rehabilitation ment Ministère de l'Equipement Ministère des Travaux Ministry of Finance Mozambique number of projects objectives operations options P.O. Box participants percent Phase Policy Action Planning policy reform policy seminars poor poverty priorities problem regional responsibility RI component RI investments road agencies Road Deterioration Road Maintenance Initiative Road Maintenance Policy road network Roads Project rural development rural electrification rural infrastructure rural roads Rwanda Senegal SSATP staff structure Sub-Saharan Africa sustainability technical tion Travaux Publics Ministère Washington D.C. World Bank Zambia Zimbabwe
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