Urban poor people and the access to transportation in the Asian developing countries : a case study of Hanoi | |
| Author | Ahlem, Hathroubi |
| Call Number | AIT RSPR no.SM-04-125 |
| Subject(s) | Urban poor--Transportation--Vietnam|zHanoi Urban transportation--Vietnam--Hanoi |
| Note | A research study submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Administration, School of Management |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Research studies project report ; no. SM-04-125 |
| Abstract | In the developing world, the lack of infrastructures is predominant in most of the countries and contributes to put them down; the provision of facilities is not homogenous throughout Asia. Each country has drawn its own strategy. In Thailand for example, the transports network is well implemented and keeps improving very fast but its neighbors undergo some difficulties in that field. Those ones rely much more on the informal transports system, and the provision of a public framework is either insufficient or definitely absent as the Cambodian case illustrates it. The first people to be deprived are obviously the one with the lowest purchase power, most of the time they cannot afford private transport means, and the public services are unable to target properly these customers. As a consequence, they give more importance to the informal sector; this category of transport includes non-motorized transports - bicycles, rickshaws...- and motorbikes, private vans, private buses. The main goals of that paper are to stress the link between the urban exclusion and the infrastructures deficiency in Asia, with a special focus on Vietnam's situation. The paper intends to define the main actors who should be mobilized and which type of actions are required to fight both poverty and exclusion. The shortage of infrastructures has a harmful influence on the national economy, and side effects on the livelihood in cities. It makes it very difficult for citizens to accede to the pool o f j obs, which a re mostly found i n t he city- c enter, the time o f c ommuting from home to the job may be really long and expensive, and traveling becomes a time and money consuming exercise. It will be a mistake to have an only economic approach of this issue, transports are supposed to be the bridge between different communities, different places, socially speaking they have negative backlash on relations, or on social activities, it ends with a complete social exclusion. Many experts have tried to provide us with answers and western solutions, without noticing that the prerequisite to make it work were not gathered. The western opinions or models have always been praised as great solutions or alternatives for the developing countries in Africa or Asia but the differences between the developed and the less ones make it really difficult to import these models. The discrepancy between the third world and the developed countries is too huge to find any parallelism between them in terms of economic environment, local practices, needs... How could experts provide developing countries with so-called " solutions" if they have any clue of what is going on those places? |
| Year | 2004 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Research studies project report ; no. SM-04-125 |
| Type | Research Study Project Report (RSPR) |
| School | School of Management |
| Department | Other Field of Studies (No Department) |
| Chairperson(s) | Zimmermann, Willi.; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Dimmitt, Nicholas J.;Swierczek, Fredric W.; |
| Degree | Research Studies Project Report (M. Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2004. |