Estimating the impact of access to infrastructure and extension services in rural Nepal
During the period of Nepal’s ninth Five-Year Plan (1997–2002), agricultural growth in the predominantly rural society was disappointing. The recent peace process, however, gives the country new opportunities to develop its economy with less interference due to internal conflict. This research monogr...
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| author | Dillon, Andrew Sharma, Manohar Zhang, Xiaobo |
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| description | During the period of Nepal’s ninth Five-Year Plan (1997–2002), agricultural growth in the predominantly rural society was disappointing. The recent peace process, however, gives the country new opportunities to develop its economy with less interference due to internal conflict. This research monograph investigates how Nepal might seize these opportunities by increasing agricultural growth and poverty reduction through improvements in roads, irrigation, and rural extension. The authors evaluate the impact of public investments in these areas by using two types of data and methodology: a hedonic approach that relates access to public infrastructure and services to land value and a panel of household-level data on consumption, poverty, and income. The hedonic methodology suggests a positive relationship between investments in irrigation and extension and household welfare, although the panel data approach suggests otherwise. This result reinforces the importance of methodology in evaluating rural investments. Rural roads yielded more clear-cut findings, however: both approaches agree that investment there has a positive relationship with household welfare, as measured in land values, consumption growth, poverty reduction, or agricultural income growth. The authors recommend increased public investments in rural roads, irrigation, and extension, as well as further research into precisely how infrastructure and services affect rural households’ welfare and how their effectiveness can be improved. This monograph will be useful to policymakers, researchers, and others concerned with Nepal’s future development. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1520892025-11-06T03:54:06Z Estimating the impact of access to infrastructure and extension services in rural Nepal Dillon, Andrew Sharma, Manohar Zhang, Xiaobo agricultural growth poverty reduction public investment households policies rural development infrastructure rural areas economic situation During the period of Nepal’s ninth Five-Year Plan (1997–2002), agricultural growth in the predominantly rural society was disappointing. The recent peace process, however, gives the country new opportunities to develop its economy with less interference due to internal conflict. This research monograph investigates how Nepal might seize these opportunities by increasing agricultural growth and poverty reduction through improvements in roads, irrigation, and rural extension. The authors evaluate the impact of public investments in these areas by using two types of data and methodology: a hedonic approach that relates access to public infrastructure and services to land value and a panel of household-level data on consumption, poverty, and income. The hedonic methodology suggests a positive relationship between investments in irrigation and extension and household welfare, although the panel data approach suggests otherwise. This result reinforces the importance of methodology in evaluating rural investments. Rural roads yielded more clear-cut findings, however: both approaches agree that investment there has a positive relationship with household welfare, as measured in land values, consumption growth, poverty reduction, or agricultural income growth. The authors recommend increased public investments in rural roads, irrigation, and extension, as well as further research into precisely how infrastructure and services affect rural households’ welfare and how their effectiveness can be improved. This monograph will be useful to policymakers, researchers, and others concerned with Nepal’s future development. 2011 2024-09-10T18:47:28Z 2024-09-10T18:47:28Z Book https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152089 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Dillon, Andrew; Sharma, Manohar; and Zhang, Xiaobo. 2011. Estimating the impact of access to infrastructure and extension services in rural Nepal. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896291881. |
| spellingShingle | agricultural growth poverty reduction public investment households policies rural development infrastructure rural areas economic situation Dillon, Andrew Sharma, Manohar Zhang, Xiaobo Estimating the impact of access to infrastructure and extension services in rural Nepal |
| title | Estimating the impact of access to infrastructure and extension services in rural Nepal |
| title_full | Estimating the impact of access to infrastructure and extension services in rural Nepal |
| title_fullStr | Estimating the impact of access to infrastructure and extension services in rural Nepal |
| title_full_unstemmed | Estimating the impact of access to infrastructure and extension services in rural Nepal |
| title_short | Estimating the impact of access to infrastructure and extension services in rural Nepal |
| title_sort | estimating the impact of access to infrastructure and extension services in rural nepal |
| topic | agricultural growth poverty reduction public investment households policies rural development infrastructure rural areas economic situation |
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