@article{Breisinger:331478,
      recid = {331478},
      author = {Breisinger, Clemens},
      title = {Roads - A way out of poverty? A two region, general  equilibrium model for Vietnam},
      address = {2006},
      pages = {37},
      year = {2006},
      note = {Presented at the 9th Annual Conference on Global Economic  Analysis, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia},
      abstract = {There are good reasons to emphasise road investments in  developing countries. Road infrastructures are directly or  indirectly related to all eight Millennium Development  Goals (MDG). Furthermore, the effective protection caused  by the lack of roads is for many countries considerably  higher than those caused by tariffs, hampering the  empowerment of people to benefit from trade liberalisation  and economic growth. In addition, earlier problems of  infrastructure projects have been identified and a stronger  emphasis on accountability, capacity building and  decentralisation can be expected to contribute to more  effective and efficient capital allocation. Infrastructure  investments require comprehensive appraisal methods.  Traditional tools, so far, have taken a project or sector  perspective that did not capture economy-wide effects. In  addition to these inter-sectoral effects, investments in  infrastructure can have long-term impacts on national  capital formation, the government budget and foreign trade  balance. To address this research gap, this paper puts  forward a tworegion computable general equilibrium (CGE)  model with post-simulation poverty analysis. Two major  results- one general and one country specific- emerge from  this analysis. CGE models have the ability to incorporate  several dimensions of infrastructure investments that are  missed by traditional analyses. By comparing investments in  urban and rural roads in Vietnam we find that especially  rural road investments can contribute to economic growth  and poverty reduction.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/331478},
}