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Access to infrastructure and human well-being: evidence from rural Nepal

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  • Jeet Bahadur Sapkota

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This article documents the level of access to infrastructure and assesses its perceived impacts on human well-being in rural Nepal. The study found a more varied level of well-being in less remote communities and determined that the perceived impacts of access to infrastructure on human well-being is higher in more remote areas. Notably, access to roads received the highest priority among respondents, followed by drinking water and irrigation. The methodology and findings of this study have practical implications for rural development in hills and mountains where human settlements are highly dispersed and access is key to human well-being.

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  • Jeet Bahadur Sapkota, 2018. "Access to infrastructure and human well-being: evidence from rural Nepal," Development in Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(2), pages 182-194, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cdipxx:v:28:y:2018:i:2:p:182-194
    DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2018.1424802
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    1. Dawn D. Cheong & Bettina Bock & Dirk Roep, 2024. "Unpacking gender mainstreaming: a critical discourse analysis of agricultural and rural development policy in Myanmar and Nepal," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 41(2), pages 599-613, June.
    2. Rottemberg, Julieta & Ghasri, Milad & Grzybowska, Hanna & Dockery, Alfred M. & Waller, S. Travis, 2022. "Inequality and access to services for remote populations: An Australian case study," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 105(C).
    3. Satoru Komatsu & Yuki Yamamoto & Yutaka Ito & Shinji Kaneko & Ram Prasad Dhital, 2020. "Water for life: ceaseless routine efforts for collecting drinking water in remote mountainous villages of Nepal," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 22(8), pages 7909-7925, December.
    4. Andries M. Heyns & Robert Banick, 2024. "Optimisation of rural roads planning based on multi-modal travel: a multi-service accessibility study in Nepal’s remote Karnali Province," Transportation, Springer, vol. 51(2), pages 567-613, April.
    5. Sapkota, Jeet Bahadur, 2018. "Human well-being after 2015 Nepal earthquake: micro-evidence from one of the hardest hit rural villages," MPRA Paper 106096, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    6. Jeet Bahadur Sapkota & Kyosuke Kurita & Pramila Neupane, 2021. "Progress after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake: Evidence from Two Household Surveys in One of the Hardest-Hit Mountain Villages," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(21), pages 1-17, October.

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    JEL classification:

    • H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
    • O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
    • O20 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - General
    • R2 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis

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