Evaluating Public Policy Costs in Rural Development Planning: The Example of Health Care in Sierra Leone

Logan, B. Ikubolajeh

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“…Additionally, it is important to pay attention to the city's landscape and cultural heritage to improve the overall quality of life and happiness of urban residents. [2].…”

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Public Policy Research in Urban Development Planning

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2023

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This paper mainly discusses the research of public policies in urban development planning, including housing policy, transportation policy, urban infrastructure construction policy and social welfare policy. By analyzing the policy content and implementation of various fields, combined with specific examples, this paper explains the key areas that the government should pay attention to in the process of urban development. In addition, the paper highlights the importance of urban development planning and the important role of policy making in achieving sustainable urban development and improving the quality of life of citizens.

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“…Additionally, it is important to pay attention to the city's landscape and cultural heritage to improve the overall quality of life and happiness of urban residents. [2].…”

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Public Policy Research in Urban Development Planning

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2023

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“…Social and political structures, through their power and control over individuals, facilitate or impede attempts by people to develop their region. Logan [68], for example, has recently used a location-allocation model to show how a plan in Sierra Leone to distribute rural health care facilities using the structure of the existing administrative system is one in which people are 37 percent farther from facilities than in an optimal plan determined by the model. As Bromley [14] has described, the reality in many developing countries is that decision making processes are often controlled by interest groups beholden to small elite groups and to outside sources of finance to which these countries frequently turn for the capital needed for investments in infrastructure.…”

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The Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography Location Theory, Location-Allocation Models, and Service Development Planning in the Third World

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1988

Economic Geography

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. Clark University is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Economic Geography.The absence of an integrated system of settlements providing services and facilities is often cited as a cause of underdevelopment in rural areas. Locationallocation analysis systems provide an explicit framework for diagnosing service accessibility problems, measuring the efficiency of recent locational decisions and the current levels of settlement efficiency, and generating viable alternatives for action by decision makers. Development objectives are realized only when these models are applied within a broader location theory framework in which the often antagonistic behaviors of the many actors are recognized.The debate about the role of location theory in planning services for regional development has raised many interesting questions. I believe that from this debate an outline of a new theory for the location of services is emerging, and that, like all good theory, it will have a universal appeal to the solution of service delivery problems everywhere. Because this new theory will have social and political components, in addition to the economic components on which its progenitor, cen-'The Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography was established to honor the late Professor Howard G. Roepke who served on faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1952 until 1985. The lecturer is chosen by the geography faculty of that institution in consultation with the editor of this journal. The paper was read at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April, 1988. The author would like to thank Ron Schultz and Sam Ratick for their comments at the presentatral place theory, was based, I will call it "service development theory." The experiences of third world countries in developing new service systems have contributed significantly to the development of this theory.The evolution of this theory has not been simple, and an interesting debate that began about ten years ago is far from over. Both sides of the debate argued that improvements in access to services are essential for rural development and theretion of this paper. He also acknowledges support from NSF Grants SES-7925069 and SES-8616644 and the benefit of discussions in the past five years on the subject of location theory and regional development planning with Eric Belsky, Paul Densham,

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“…However, when political considerations override all other planning criteria (such as maximizing social welfare returns), plan implementation can lead to an unrealistic distribution of scarce resources which, in turn, can inhibit economic development. Logan (1985) has shown, for example, that the allocation of funds for rural development in Sierra Leone is often based on the colonial urban administrative hierarchy or on ethnic affinity, both of which may be inappropriate for meeting the needs of the bulk of the rural population. Factors like these seriously reduce the social welfare benefits that could be derived from scarce and limited foreign earnings.…”

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