Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Horn of Africa

Access to infrastructure supports economic development through both capital accumulation and structural transformation. This paper investigates the links between investments in electricity, Internet, and road infrastructure, in isolation and bundle...

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Main Authors:	Herrera Dappe, Matias, Lebrand, Mathilde
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:	INFRASTRUCTURE TRANSPORT CORRIDOR STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT ELECTRICITY INTERNET ACCESS ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/243731638286142370/Infrastructure-and-Structural-Change-in-the-Horn-of-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36646

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spelling	okr-10986-366462021-12-04T05:10:43Z Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Horn of Africa Herrera Dappe, Matias Lebrand, Mathilde INFRASTRUCTURE TRANSPORT CORRIDOR STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT ELECTRICITY INTERNET ACCESS ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE Access to infrastructure supports economic development through both capital accumulation and structural transformation. This paper investigates the links between investments in electricity, Internet, and road infrastructure, in isolation and bundled, and economic development in the Horn of Africa, a region that includes countries with different levels of infrastructure and economic development. Using data on the expansion of the road, electricity, and Internet networks over the past two decades, it provides reduced-form estimates of the impacts of infrastructure investments on the sectoral composition of employment. Bundled infrastructure investments cause different patterns of structural transformation than isolated infrastructure investments. The impact of bundled road and electricity investments on reducing the sectoral employment share in agriculture is found to be 2.5 times larger than the impact of roads alone. The paper then uses a spatial general equilibrium model to quantify the impacts of future regional transport investments, bundled with electricity and trade facilitation measures, on economic development in countries in the Horn of Africa. 2021-12-03T15:10:06Z 2021-12-03T15:10:06Z 2021-11 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/243731638286142370/Infrastructure-and-Structural-Change-in-the-Horn-of-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36646 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9870 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE)
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description	Access to infrastructure supports economic development through both capital accumulation and structural transformation. This paper investigates the links between investments in electricity, Internet, and road infrastructure, in isolation and bundled, and economic development in the Horn of Africa, a region that includes countries with different levels of infrastructure and economic development. Using data on the expansion of the road, electricity, and Internet networks over the past two decades, it provides reduced-form estimates of the impacts of infrastructure investments on the sectoral composition of employment. Bundled infrastructure investments cause different patterns of structural transformation than isolated infrastructure investments. The impact of bundled road and electricity investments on reducing the sectoral employment share in agriculture is found to be 2.5 times larger than the impact of roads alone. The paper then uses a spatial general equilibrium model to quantify the impacts of future regional transport investments, bundled with electricity and trade facilitation measures, on economic development in countries in the Horn of Africa.
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author	Herrera Dappe, Matias Lebrand, Mathilde
author_facet	Herrera Dappe, Matias Lebrand, Mathilde
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title	Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Horn of Africa
title_short	Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Horn of Africa
title_full	Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Horn of Africa
title_fullStr	Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Horn of Africa
title_full_unstemmed	Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Horn of Africa
title_sort	infrastructure and structural change in the horn of africa
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2021
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/243731638286142370/Infrastructure-and-Structural-Change-in-the-Horn-of-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36646
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