Access to Physical Infrastructure and Rural Livelihoods: Evidence from  Ethiopia

Gizaw, Getaye

dc.contributor.author	Gizaw, Getaye
dc.date.accessioned	2026-10-16T07:27:56Z
dc.date.available	2026-10-16T07:27:56Z
dc.date.issued	2026-02
dc.identifier.uri	http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/17549
dc.description.abstract	With more than 80% of the population living in rural areas and Ethiopia being primarily an agrarian nation, the development of rural infrastructure is crucial for boosting the country's socioeconomic development. Since 2010, Ethiopia has acknowledged the importance of rural road development and has invested significantly in this area. The study aims to investigate how access to rural road transport affects smallholder commercialization in Ethiopia. For this study, the data is compiled from the Ethiopian Socioeconomic Survey, run by the Central Statistics Agency of Ethiopia and the World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture team. The descriptive statistics result shows that approximately 54.35% of households in rural Ethiopia have access to an all-weather road, indicating a moderate level of connectivity. The study finds that road access significantly improves market participation and the extent of commercialization, though the effect on sales is small. The study also found that participation and the degree of participation in the crop output market are influenced by market accessibility, credit accessibility, access to extension services, availability of irrigation facilities, off-farm income, natural shocks, land size, total quantity of output produced, rainfall availability, regional dummies, and dummies for survey periods. Therefore, there should be investments in market infrastructure, access to institutional supports, agricultural productivity, irrigation, and climate-smart agriculture in addition to rural roads to help farmers produce more and supply output to the market. Furthermore, designing region-specific policies can enhance output market participation of smallholder farmers	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	ECONOMICS	en_US
dc.title	Access to Physical Infrastructure and Rural Livelihoods: Evidence from Ethiopia	en_US
dc.type	Dissartation	en_US