Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum : Technical Paper 4. Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Lake Chad Region

This paper focuses on the impact of infrastructure on economic development for the countries around the Lake Chad area, an economically- and socially-integrated area in north-west Africa that has development potential, but which has been undermined...

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Main Author:	Lebrand, Mathild
Format:	Report
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:	INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION ECONOMIC INTERDEPENDENCE REGIONAL INTEGRATION ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE ELECTRICITY INTERNET DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE SPATIAL ECONOMICS GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/619271636446904134/Technical-Paper-4-Infrastructure-and-Structural-Change-in-the-Lake-Chad-Region http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36575

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spelling	okr-10986-365752021-11-17T05:10:49Z Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum : Technical Paper 4. Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Lake Chad Region Lebrand, Mathild INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION ECONOMIC INTERDEPENDENCE REGIONAL INTEGRATION ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE ELECTRICITY INTERNET DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE SPATIAL ECONOMICS GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL This paper focuses on the impact of infrastructure on economic development for the countries around the Lake Chad area, an economically- and socially-integrated area in north-west Africa that has development potential, but which has been undermined by multiple and interrelated drivers of fragility, conflict, and violence. The Lake Chad region comprises a set of administrative areas across Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria that surround Lake Chad, with an estimated 17 million to 19 million people, who are primarily involved in agriculture and fishing activities. The region has one of the largest concentrations of extreme poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa and the world and lags in human development outcomes and access to key public services. The paper analyzes the impact of infrastructure in Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria, from a national and regional perspective, and with a particular focus on the Lake Chad area. The paper is structured as follows. Section two presents the data. Section three presents the empirical strategy and results. Section four develops a spatial general-equilibrium model to produce counterfactuals for more regional integration. Section five concludes. 2021-11-16T19:52:47Z 2021-11-16T19:52:47Z 2021-11-09 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/619271636446904134/Technical-Paper-4-Infrastructure-and-Structural-Change-in-the-Lake-Chad-Region http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36575 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Country Economic Memorandum Africa Africa Western and Central (AFW) Central Africa West Africa Cameroon Chad Niger Nigeria
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topic	INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION ECONOMIC INTERDEPENDENCE REGIONAL INTEGRATION ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE ELECTRICITY INTERNET DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE SPATIAL ECONOMICS GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL
spellingShingle	INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION ECONOMIC INTERDEPENDENCE REGIONAL INTEGRATION ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE ELECTRICITY INTERNET DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE SPATIAL ECONOMICS GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL Lebrand, Mathild Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum : Technical Paper 4. Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Lake Chad Region
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description	This paper focuses on the impact of infrastructure on economic development for the countries around the Lake Chad area, an economically- and socially-integrated area in north-west Africa that has development potential, but which has been undermined by multiple and interrelated drivers of fragility, conflict, and violence. The Lake Chad region comprises a set of administrative areas across Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria that surround Lake Chad, with an estimated 17 million to 19 million people, who are primarily involved in agriculture and fishing activities. The region has one of the largest concentrations of extreme poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa and the world and lags in human development outcomes and access to key public services. The paper analyzes the impact of infrastructure in Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria, from a national and regional perspective, and with a particular focus on the Lake Chad area. The paper is structured as follows. Section two presents the data. Section three presents the empirical strategy and results. Section four develops a spatial general-equilibrium model to produce counterfactuals for more regional integration. Section five concludes.
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author	Lebrand, Mathild
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title	Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum : Technical Paper 4. Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Lake Chad Region
title_short	Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum : Technical Paper 4. Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Lake Chad Region
title_full	Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum : Technical Paper 4. Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Lake Chad Region
title_fullStr	Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum : Technical Paper 4. Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Lake Chad Region
title_full_unstemmed	Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum : Technical Paper 4. Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Lake Chad Region
title_sort	lake chad regional economic memorandum : technical paper 4. infrastructure and structural change in the lake chad region
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2021
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/619271636446904134/Technical-Paper-4-Infrastructure-and-Structural-Change-in-the-Lake-Chad-Region http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36575
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Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum : Technical Paper 4. Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Lake Chad Region

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