Rapid Response Stimulus Package for Improving Local Roads and Creating Jobs in Armenia

In late 2008, the Republic of Armenia requested World Bank assistance to help mitigate the local impact of the global financial crisis. This paper describes how the Lifeline Road Improvement Project (LRIP) in Armenia was prepared and implemented as a rapid-response stimulus package. The project was prepared in just 6 weeks. This project helped rehabilitate more than 150 km of low-volume rural roads and generated about 15,000 person-months of employment over an 8-month period from May to December 2009. The World Bank’s Operational Policy 8.0, Rapid Response to Crises and Emergencies, was applied to the design and implementation of this project. This operational policy is invoked when major adverse economic and social impacts resulting from natural disasters or crises caused by humans occur and triggers the use of a set of streamlined procedures for rapid project preparation and implementation. The lessons learned from the design and implementation of this stimulus package offer useful guidance for preparing rapid-response infrastructure programs and projects under similar conditions and circumstances in other countries.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.3141/2203-20
• Summary URL:
  http://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Rapid+Response+Stimulus+Package+for+Improving+Local+Roads+and+Creating+Jobs+in+Armenia&author=S.+Ishihara&author=C.+Bennett&author=A.+Bakhtamyan&author=J.+Ning&author=A.+Faiz&publication_year=2011
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• Authors:
  • Ishihara, Satoshi
  • Bennett, Christopher
  • Bakhtamyan, Alexander
  • Ning, Jiangbo
  • Faiz, Asif
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 160-165
• Monograph Title: Low-Volume Roads 2011, Volume 1
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Issue Number: 2203
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Financing; Jobs; Low volume roads; Rehabilitation; Rural highways
• Identifier Terms: World Bank
• Uncontrolled Terms: Economic assistance; Economic stimulus; Job creation; Road improvements
• Geographic Terms: Armenia (Republic)
• Subject Areas: Economics; Finance; Highways; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01345651
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309160841
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Jul 27 2011 1:42PM