In Ethiopia, only 2% of rural people have access to electricity, and telephone communication is more or less absent. Researchers believe that this is because only 17% of rural communities in the country live within one mile of a paved road.
新的公路为农村地区带来了其他必要的公共服务。在埃塞俄比亚，只有2%的农村人口能用上电，而电话服务则几乎没有。研究人员认为这种情况的成因就是该国只有17%的农村社区位于公路的1公里范围内。