Transport Costs and Rural Development

Maureen Kilkenny

Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) Publications from Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University

Abstract: Can rural development be assisted by improving accessibility? This paper describes how transport costs condition the choices by firms and people to concentrate in cities or to spread out across agricultural hinterlands and considers the impacts of zero and relatively high agricultural transport costs.

Date: 1995-04
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Related works:
Working Paper: Transport Costs and Rural Development (2003)
Working Paper: Transport Costs and Rural Development (1998)
Working Paper: Transport Costs and Rural Development (1995)
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