Infrastructure and Services A country s ability to unleash its economic potential is closely linked to the efficiency of its transport system. Transport is also an integral part of almost all daily subsistence and social activities.
Poor households transport their water, their fuel, their food.
They need transport to get to markets, jobs, and health clinics. The likelihood that the children of poor families will go to secondary school, especially daughters, is much higher if there are reliable and affordable transport services. Better transport facilitates poor people s participation in social and political processes. Without well-defined and effective transport policies and strategies, poor people will not be able to accumulate enough human, physical, financial, and social assets to get ahead. Transport therefore has to be an integral part of a country s poverty reduction strategy.