Bicycle poverty reduction

Bicycle poverty reduction is the concept that access to bicycles and the transportation infrastructure to support them can dramatically reduce poverty. This has been demonstrated in various pilot projects in South Asia and Africa. 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%.

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.

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File:Banana-bike.jpg, Men in Uganda using a bicycle to transport bananas
File:Person mit fahrrad feb07.jpg, A man uses a bicycle to carry goods in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
File:Keset sabut kelapa.jpg, A man hauling coconuts fiber doormats in Indonesia
File:Viet pack bike as used 2007.JPG, A man hauling material with a bicycle in Vietnam
File:Coconut bunch.jpg, A bicycle in India hauling coconuts
File:Loaded bi-cycle.jpg, A man hauling scrap by bicycle in China
File:Water delivery.jpg, A man delivering water by bicycle in Nanjing, China
File:Farmers on bicycle 2.jpg, Farmers hauling corn stalks by bicycle in southeast Asia
File:Bicycle Boda Boda in Uganda.JPG, Bicycle Boda Boda in Uganda
File:Working bicycle in Moshi, Tanzania (2013).JPG, Hauling firewood by bicycle in Moshi, Tanzania

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