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Rural Infrastructure for Inclusive Rural Transformation in Developing Countries : = Case Studies on Roads,Markets and Irrigation from Bangladesh and the Philippines.

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Title/Author:	Rural Infrastructure for Inclusive Rural Transformation in Developing Countries :/
Reminder of title:	Case Studies on Roads,Markets and Irrigation from Bangladesh and the Philippines.
Author:	Higgins, Daniel.
Description:	1 online resource (220 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-11, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-11B.
Subject:	Agriculture. -
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Rural Infrastructure for Inclusive Rural Transformation in Developing Countries : = Case Studies on Roads,Markets and Irrigation from Bangladesh and the Philippines.
Higgins, Daniel.

Rural Infrastructure for Inclusive Rural Transformation in Developing Countries :Case Studies on Roads,Markets and Irrigation from Bangladesh and the Philippines. - 1 online resource (220 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-11, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Wageningen University and Research, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

Finding effective ways to foster inclusive rural transformation in developing countries is key to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Improving rural infrastructure has the potential to impact the transformation process in many ways, including by enhancing agricultural productivity, off-farm activities, asset accumulation, resilience, food security and nutrition, social capital, and investments in education. It also has the potential to improve the inclusion of women and other marginalised groups in the transformation process. Aiming to fill evidence gaps and to inform policy, we test these potential impact pathways using two rural infrastructure projects in Bangladesh and the Philippines. In order to draw more nuanced policy implications, we particularly focus on the contextual factors that may have influenced the impacts of the projects.The first two chapters are focused on the Irrigated Rice Production Enhancement Project (IRPEP) in the Philippines. Implemented by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the project aimed to improve canal irrigation systems for smallholder rice farmers, as well as building the capacity of local Irrigators' Associations to manage them. The next two chapters are focused on the impact of the Coastal Climate Resilience Infrastructure Project (CCRIP) in southwest Bangladesh. Also implemented by IFAD, this project built and improved small rural markets and market-connecting roads to make them usable year-round, including during seasonal flooding, and also built the capacity of local Market Management Committees to ensure markets are managed sustainably.Sets of quantitative and qualitative data were collected for each of the projects. The quantitative datasets consist of both beneficiary and control households, and the samples were designed in order to ensure that, for each project, these two groups of households were comparable, with a low risk of selection bias that could distort the impact estimates.In Chapter 1 we analyse the impact of IRPEP using a framework of inclusive rural transformation indicators and a statistical matching analysis to compare treated and control households. While we find strong positive impacts on rice yields, we find that impacts on other aspects of the transformation process were heavily influenced by market access and whether the local economy was structured to support lucrative livelihood diversification. Where this was the case, we find a particularly strong link between improved irrigation and livestock production. While poorer downstream farmers benefitted in terms of better yields, broader transformational impacts for this group were curtailed by limited access to inputs and markets. Finally, we find that strengthening Irrigators' Associations was particularly effective in promoting women's inclusion and equitable water use along the canals.In Chapter 2 we further explore the impacts of IRPEP on agricultural productivity, using a Stochastic Meta-Frontier approach, combined with impact evaluation techniques, to assess how the project affected the Technical Efficiency and Frontier Output of beneficiaries at the parcel level. Broadly, we find a strong impact on Frontier Output, suggesting that improved irrigation technology helped to increase production potential, but this was coupled with limited impacts on Technical Efficiency, suggesting that farm management was not improved, highlighting the need for more support in this area in future projects. Analyses for various sub-groups suggest that the project had a pro-poor impact, potentially enhanced by the role of the Irrigators' Associations in promoting more equitable water use.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798426878372Subjects--Topical Terms:

518588
Agriculture.
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