Breaking the Cycle of Rural Poverty: One Infrastructure Investment at a Time

From AfricaCan End Poverty Tue Oct 14 2014, 19:59:00

A rural village in Benin ©Arne Hoel/World Bank

A couple years ago I returned to Dovi, my maternal village, for the first time since my middle school years in the mid-1970s. Located in the highly fertile Oueme River Valley, the village at that time was one of the most affluent parts of Central Benin, the breadbasket of Agonlin region. It had the second largest market and one of the best primary schools in the country.

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