Provision of Rural Transport Infrastructures

This paper addresses the problem many governments are faced with on how to reduce time and costs of the preparation of rural road and rural development projects. Two alternate screening procedures and seven alternate simple economic appraisal methods, which can also be used to test the economic viability of different rural infrastructure plans and design standards, are proposed. Based on testing the methods with a worldwide sample of 110 individual rural roads with and without complementary agricultural investments, their reliability was found to be high.