Evaluating the social profitability of an all-weather rural road

Clive Bell

No wp-2026-84, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Evaluating the social profitability of a feeder road involves not only estimating its construction costs and what changes it would induce in the villages served, but also valuing them correctly. The latter requires the use of shadow prices instead of market prices at certain stages of the analysis, while respecting the fact that households' welfare depends on income at market prices.

Keywords: Rural roads; Cost-benefit analysis; Public infrastructure; Orissa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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