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In: Asia Pacific development journal, Volume 13, Issue 2, p. 1-23
ISSN: 2411-9873
In: Southeast Asian affairs, Volume 2005, Issue 1, p. 385-404
ISSN: 1793-9135
In: Southeast Asian affairs, Volume 32, p. 385-406
ISSN: 0377-5437
Most poor people of the world reside in rural areas, which are frequently characterized by low levels of public infrastructure, especially roads. Inadequate roads raise transport costs, limiting the use poor people can make of local markets for the sale of their produce, the purchase of consumer goods and opportunities for off-farm employment. Between 1997–98 and 2002–03, rural poverty incidence in Lao PDR declined by 9.5 per cent of the rural population. This occurred even though some of the macroeconomic conditions in Lao PDR mitigated, to some extent, against the interests of rural people. The analysis of the relationship between poverty incidence and road development provided in this paper suggests that about 13 per cent of this decline in rural poverty can be attributed to improved road access alone. Other factors included a massive public investment in irrigation facilities. There is now a high return to providing dry weather access to the most isolated households of Lao PDR—those who have no road access at all. They constitute 31.6 per cent of all rural households in Lao PDR and are being left behind by the development of the market economy. By providing them with dry season road access, rural poverty incidence could be reduced permanently from the present 33 per cent to 29.7 per cent. A further reduction to 26 per cent could be obtained by providing all rural households with all-weather road access.
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In: Southeast Asian affairs, Volume 2002, Issue 1, p. 326-342
ISSN: 1793-9135
In: Southeast Asian affairs, Issue 29, p. 326-342
ISSN: 0377-5437
In: Southeast Asian affairs, Volume 29, p. 326-344
ISSN: 0377-5437
In: Journal of institutional and theoretical economics: JITE, Volume 138, Issue 3, p. 437-458
ISSN: 0932-4569
In: Regional development dialogue: RDD ; an international journal focusing on Third World development problems, Volume 22, Issue 2, p. 142-159
ISSN: 0250-6505
In: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 83, Issue 4, p. 903-920
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In: Agenda: a journal of policy analysis & reform, Volume 5, Issue 3
ISSN: 1447-4735
In: The Geneva papers on risk and insurance - issues and practice, Volume 19, Issue 4, p. 472-480
ISSN: 1468-0440
In: European Work & Organizational Psychologist, Volume 3, Issue 3, p. 237-249
ISSN: 1464-0643
In: Trade, Growth and Inequality in the Era of Globalization, p. 146-171
1. Work and Happiness: An Unlikely Comincation?: Introduction to Issues and Contents. 2. Why Work?: Features of the environment, unemployment and motivations to work. 3. Feeling Good and Feeling Bad: Aspects of happiness and some questionnaire. 4. The Top Twleve Job Features: Outline of the key 12 characteristics and types of impact. 5. What's in a Job?: Summarizing research into the Top Twelve and their sub-components in work settings. 6. It's in Your Genes as Well as Your Job: The influence of inheritance and personality. 7. Come to Think About It ... Happiness Is Relative: Thinking styles that affect happiness. 8. Actions as Well as Words: Practical steps to increase job happiness