2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-5436.2005.tb00196.x
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Transport, Poverty and Agrarian Change in Africa: Models, Mechanisms and New Ways Forward

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“…African roads and tracks historically evolved from the everyday flows of people and animals rather than from controlled design. These pathways gradually began to support long distance trade and to facilitate the imposition of law and order in peripheral regions [64,65]. In time, the contribution or roads shifted to developmental objectives.…”
Section: Rural Roads In Ethiopiamentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…African roads and tracks historically evolved from the everyday flows of people and animals rather than from controlled design. These pathways gradually began to support long distance trade and to facilitate the imposition of law and order in peripheral regions [64,65]. In time, the contribution or roads shifted to developmental objectives.…”
Section: Rural Roads In Ethiopiamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Today, investments in roads, including decentralised rural networks, are some of the largest donor-funded projects in Africa [65]. Questions about the relationship between transport infrastructure and regional economic disparities are being asked in the regional economic literature (see, for example, [73,74]).…”
Section: Rural Roads In Ethiopiamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Historically, building roads has been associated with controlling populations, accessing resources and developing profitable markets, with little attention to poverty issues (deGrassi, 2005). As recently as the 1990s, the poverty implications of transport were largely ignored as the transport sector was dominated by political, economic and engineering considerations, with little understanding within transport ministries of poverty-reduction criteria, gender and social issues or participatory approaches (deGrassi, 2005).…”
Section: Poverty and Transport Focusmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As recently as the 1990s, the poverty implications of transport were largely ignored as the transport sector was dominated by political, economic and engineering considerations, with little understanding within transport ministries of poverty-reduction criteria, gender and social issues or participatory approaches (deGrassi, 2005). In an important study for the World Bank, Gannon and Liu (1997) noted that there were no guiding principles for, or systematic approaches to, poverty issues in the Bank's transport sector operations, as transport was considered to have only an indirect relationship to poverty.…”
Section: Poverty and Transport Focusmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Pastures could be depleted, forcing herders to migrate in search of water and pasture. The effects of drought in the Horn of Africa could be felt along the border areas of Jonglei state in the form of reduced commodity flows from neighbouring countries (DeGrassi, 2005).…”
Section: South Sudanmentioning
confidence: 99%