Assessing the Impact of Road Infrastructure on Poverty Reduction in Developing Economies: The Case of Nigeria

Infrastructure development seems appealing. However, few micro studies investigated the effect and channel of physical infrastructure on household’s living standards. We addressed these issues using road infrastructure in kilometers on Nigeria’s panel data. Infrastructure development measured as stress-free access to road is found to have significant direct effect on “within” households’ well-being. However, the results for the isolated and non-isolated households in the entire economy and conflict-free zones are the same based on distance-quartile. In contrast, the conflict-prone zone’s result is different and contrariwise. But, these outcomes suggested that not-too-distant households are better off, although from an unfamiliar viewpoint.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Modern Economy

• Publication date

  2019-12-05

• Fields of study

  Engineering, Geography, Business, Economics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.4236/me.2019.1012153
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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