Year: 1992
Type: article
Abstract: Before independence Baringo was a closed district with lagging \ndevelopment. During the 1980s, the pace of development increased tremendously \ndue, perhaps, to the opening-up of the district by way of investments in road. \nRoad projects are an integral part of Kenya's regional development \npolicy. Investment in roads is considered to have potential and desirable \nimpact on standards of living. However, any type of infrastructure investment \ninvariably results in social, economic political and environmental changes \nthat were Initially neither exacted nor desired. \nThe proposed study is an attempt to assess the social and economic \nimpacts of rural roads on different, household , in the district. The analysis \nwill focus ori the processes of social and economic changes which have \naccompanied or resulted from investments on road networks in Baringc District \nover the last ten vears.
Author: Kenneth Odero
Language: English
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W169554332