Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum : Technical Paper 6. Building Rural Development in the Lake Chad Region
This paper examines the relationship between access to markets and land cultivation following Berg et al. (2018) using panel methods. Then, author contextualize these results within the broader recent development challenges of the Lake Chad region....
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/158831636447555879/Technical-Paper-6-Building-Rural-Development-in-the-Lake-Chad-Region http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36577 |
| Summary: | This paper examines the relationship
between access to markets and land cultivation following
Berg et al. (2018) using panel methods. Then, author
contextualize these results within the broader recent
development challenges of the Lake Chad region. The results
provide evidence that an increase in market access is
associated with an increase in cultivated land and is
positively associated with an increase in local agricultural
GDP. Even so, conflict from the rise of Boko Haram in the
past decade can attenuate gains whereby the proximity to
conflict events in the previous year is associated with less
cropland across the entire region and less night time lights
from over a hundred local markets nearby Lake Chad. This
paper makes two contributions. First, the importance of
market access as part of economic development is well known,
yet advancements in measurement of agricultural activity
derived from satellite data and recent data are necessary to
gain current insight given developments in the region.
Second, this paper contextualizes the findings of market
access with local conditions given the numerous conflict
events in the past decade from Boko Haram. The rest of this
paper is structured as follows. Section two describes the
data sources while section three presents the empirical
framework, section four presents the results, and section
five concludes. |
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