Written by Administrator | 20 March 2006

The poor condition of the rural transport network in Yemen constitutes a major hurdle against poverty reduction efforts, and contributes deeply to the impedance of economic growth. Rural life development
depends to a great deal on having minimum access to locations of basic social and economic activities. A number of key factors have been identified as contributing to poverty conditions, including high population growth, illiteracy, poor health, low employment and insufficient infrastructure and inadequate access to social services.
Many areas are inaccessible to vehicles leaving a large sector of the population suffering from accessibility problems to the basic services they need.

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