Rural Road Investment Efficiency

Lessons from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and Uganda

Gaël Raballand, Patricia Macchi, Carly Petracco

• Publisher: World Bank
• Year: 2010
• Topic: Business
• eBook ISBN:
  9780821382141
• Subtopic: Infrastructure
• Index: Business

This report is the second in a series of studies on transport and aid effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa. It follows a study on transport costs and prices along the main international trade corridors (Teravaninthorn and Raballand 2008). One of the principal findings of the research on international corridors in Africa was that trucking market structure and regulation differ widely among sub-regions in Sub-Saharan Africa; therefore, transport prices (but not necessarily transport costs)1 differ greatly among sub-regions and corridors. The trucking environment and market structure in West and Central Africa are characterized by cartels offering low transport quality, whereas in East Africa, the trucking environment is more competitive and the market is more mature. Much of the transport price burden along African corridors seems to depend on the political economy of freight logistics.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview
• Chapter 2 What Should the Objective Be to Significantly Reduce Isolation in Sub-Saharan Africa?
• Chapter 3 What Is the Average Transport Demand from a Farmer and the Ideal Supply from a Trader?
• Chapter 4 What Level of Investment in Roads Is Best to Stimulate Rural Growth?
• Chapter 5 How Can Load Consolidation Be Fostered?
• Chapter 6 Conclusions and Policy Recommendations
• Appendix A Methodology for Field Data Collection
• Appendix B Data Collected in the Field
• Appendix C The World Development Report 2009 Policy Framework for Lagging Regions
• Appendix D Methodological Note on Ugandan Household Surveys
• Appendix E Variable Definitions for Ugandan Household Surveys, National and Commissioned
• Appendix F Correlation Table between Variables for the Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and Ugandan Household Surveys
• Appendix G Determinant Variables of High-Value Crop Sales
• Appendix H Comparison of Key Variables between the Top 5 Percent of Landowners in Each Country’s Sample and the Country’s Total Sample
• Appendix I Descriptive Statistics on Transport Costs per Mode
• Appendix J Agroecological Zone Methodology
• Appendix K Link between Agriculture Type and Infrastructure Requirement
• Appendix L Maps of Burkina Faso
• Appendix M Maps of Cameroon
• Appendix N Maps of Uganda
• References
• Index
• Boxes
• Maps
• Figures
• Tables