Several lessons have been learned from the debate on appropriate methods for locating urban functions in developing rural areas. While location-allocation models are superior for well-defined service location selection problems where suitable data and modeling skills are available, the urban...

Improved geographical accessibility to basic services for rural populations is a goal of most governments in developing countries. Yet, only rarely have formal methods for determining optimal locations (location-allocation models) been used as an aid to decisionmaking. The use of...