"In every village along the new road, I saw life improve. Houses suddenly began to have metal roofs; more radios and even a few television antennas could be seen; children looked much better nourished and better clothed; young children, and especially young girls, stayed in school longer, since there was now a rudimentary inter-hamlet taxi service that could transport them to the next level of education in a nearby hamlet and child mortality began to decrease ..." Quoted from article)