{"id":293834,"date":"2019-09-26T11:26:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T05:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=293834"},"modified":"2019-09-26T11:26:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T05:56:08","slug":"quality-roads-have-potential-to-spur-job-creation-says-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/quality-roads-have-potential-to-spur-job-creation-says-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality roads have potential to spur job creation, says study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connectivity, in the form of high-quality roads, has the potential to catalyse small firms\u2019 growth and spur job creation across different economic geographies, says a new study by the IDFC Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Lack of roads or their poor quality is a stumbling block for over 70% firms across all size classes while paucity of electricity is a problem for more than 50% firms that hire more than 100 employees. The number of firms stating that water supply is a problem is similar across all size classes while around 21% firms, belonging to the highest-size class, report railways to be a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connectivity, in the form of high-quality roads, has the potential to catalyse small firms\u2019 growth and spur job creation across different economic geographies, says a new study by the IDFC Institute. Lack of roads or their poor quality is a stumbling block for over 70% firms across all size classes while paucity of electricity is a problem for more than 50% firms that hire more than 100 employees. The number of firms stating that water supply is a problem is similar across all size classes while around 21% firms, belonging to the highest-size class, report railways to be a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,197,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}