Engineering:Bicycle poverty reduction
Bicycle poverty reduction is the concept that access to bicycles and the transportation infrastructure to support them can dramatically reduce poverty.[1][2][3][4] This has been demonstrated in various pilot projects in South Asia and Africa.[5][6][7] Experiments done in Africa (Uganda and Tanzania) and Sri Lanka on hundreds of households have shown that a bicycle can increase the income of a poor family by as much as 35%.[5][8][9]
Transport, if analyzed for the cost–benefit analysis for rural poverty alleviation, has given one of the best returns in this regard. For example, road investments in India were a staggering 3–10 times more effective than almost all other investments and subsidies in rural economy in the decade of the 1990s. A road can ease transport on a macro level, while bicycle access supports it at the micro level. In that sense, the bicycle can be one of the most effective means to eradicate poverty in poor nations.
Gallery
A man uses a bicycle to carry goods in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
A bicycle in India hauling coconuts
Hauling firewood by bicycle in Moshi, Tanzania
A man transporting bananas by chukudu in North Kivu
new car sytle
See also
- Accessibility (transport)
- Baisikeli Ugunduzi
- Bikes Not Bombs
- Bikes to Rwanda
- BikeTown Africa
- Chukudu
- Pedaling to Freedom
- Transport divide
- With My Own Two Wheels
- World Bicycle Relief
References
- ↑ Annie Lowrey (April 30, 2013). "Is It Crazy to Think We Can Eradicate Poverty?". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/magazine/is-it-crazy-to-think-we-can-eradicate-poverty.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.
- ↑ Nicholas D. Kristof (April 12, 2010). "A Bike for Abel". The New York Times. http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/a-bike-for-abel/.
- ↑ Fred P. Hochberg (January 5, 2002). "Practical Help for Afghans". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/05/opinion/practical-help-for-afghans.html.
- ↑ "Our Impact". Bicycles Against Poverty. http://www.bicyclesagainstpoverty.org/program/#ourimpact.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Bicycle: The Unnoticed Potential". BicyclePotential.org. http://www.bicyclepotential.org/.
- ↑ "How can the bicycle assist in poverty eradication and social development in Africa?". International Bicycle Fund. http://www.ibike.org/pabin/perschon.PDF.
- ↑ "Pedal Powered Hope Project (PPHP)". Bikes Without Borders. http://bikeswithoutborders.org/pedal-powered-hope-project.
- ↑ Niklas Sieber (1998). "Appropriate Transportation and Rural Development in Makete District, Tanzania". Journal of Transport Geography 6 (1): 69–73. doi:10.1016/S0966-6923(97)00040-9. http://www.niklas-sieber.de/Publications/TransGeo98.pdf. Retrieved July 9, 2011.
- ↑ "Project Tsunami Report Confirms The Power of Bicycle". World Bicycle Relief. http://www.worldbicyclerelief.org/_images/pdfs/tsunami_measurement.pdf.
Further reading
- Qhubeka: changing lives through bicycles
- Cycling out of Poverty: a bike delivers on the global goals
External links
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