INNOVATIVE PROPOSAL FOR FINANCING RURAL ROADS

The author proposes financing construction of rural roads in developing countries through an automatically collected international tax on some aspect of global transport operations--a tax on international trade, on internationally traded oil, or on the value of world motor vehicle production. Funds collected would be credited to the World Bank's International Development Association. It takes neither imagery nor imagination to sense that this could be an effective long-run program to reduce rural isolation and to further the rate of global economic development. The function of a global network of public and private agencies in the transport sector would include the furthering of international cooperation in the conduct of research and development, in education, and in the analysis and exchange of relevant experience. A center somewhere in the network would serve as a focal point of responsibility to help assure the transportation needed to support the increasing population, urbanization and industrialization of the planet. Taking a world view of transportation would put the necessary emphasis on rural roads as the essential means of access to the resources of the globe in which all nations have a stake.

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  International Road Federation

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• Authors:
  • Owen, W
• Publication Date: 1984-7

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 6-7
• Serial:
  • World Highways/Routes du Monde
  • Volume: 35
  • Issue Number: 6
  • Publisher: Route One Publishing Limited
  • ISSN: 0964-4598
  • Serial URL: http://www.worldhighways.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cooperation; Developing countries; Financing; Highway user taxation; International; International compacts; Rural highways
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Finance; Highways; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00389940
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 30 1984 12:00AM