Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Lake Chad Region

Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Lake Chad Region

Access to infrastructure supports economic development through structural transformation. This paper investigates the links between investments in electricity, Internet, and transport infrastructure, in isolation and bundled, and economic developme...

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Main Author: Lebrand, Mathilde
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2022
Subjects:
INFRASTRUCTURE
GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL
TRANSPORT CORRIDOR
STRUCTURAL CHANGE
ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY
INTERNET ACCESS
TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE
PAVED ROAD
INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/340011642085169636/Infrastructure-and-Structural-Change-in-the-Lake-Chad-Region
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spelling okr-10986-368452022-01-21T05:10:34Z Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Lake Chad Region Lebrand, Mathilde INFRASTRUCTURE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL TRANSPORT CORRIDOR STRUCTURAL CHANGE ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY INTERNET ACCESS TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE PAVED ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT Access to infrastructure supports economic development through structural transformation. This paper investigates the links between investments in electricity, Internet, and transport infrastructure, in isolation and bundled, and economic development in the Lake Chad Region. Using data on the expansion of the paved road, electricity, and Internet networks over the past two decades and two instruments, 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. Bundled paved road and electricity investments is found to have reduced the agricultural employment share by 22 percentage points and increased the share of employment mostly in services. The paper then uses a spatial general equilibrium model to quantify the impacts of future regional transport investments, bundled with a large rural electrification program and trade facilitation measures to reduce border delays, on economic development in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad. 2022-01-20T15:47:43Z 2022-01-20T15:47:43Z 2022-01 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/340011642085169636/Infrastructure-and-Structural-Change-in-the-Lake-Chad-Region http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36845 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9899 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 Western and Central (AFW) Cameroon Chad Nigeria
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topic INFRASTRUCTURE
GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL
TRANSPORT CORRIDOR
STRUCTURAL CHANGE
ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY
INTERNET ACCESS
TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE
PAVED ROAD
INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT
spellingShingle INFRASTRUCTURE
GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL
TRANSPORT CORRIDOR
STRUCTURAL CHANGE
ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY
INTERNET ACCESS
TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE
PAVED ROAD
INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT
Lebrand, Mathilde
Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Lake Chad Region
geographic_facet Africa
Africa Western and Central (AFW)
Cameroon
Chad
Nigeria
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9899
description Access to infrastructure supports economic development through structural transformation. This paper investigates the links between investments in electricity, Internet, and transport infrastructure, in isolation and bundled, and economic development in the Lake Chad Region. Using data on the expansion of the paved road, electricity, and Internet networks over the past two decades and two instruments, 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. Bundled paved road and electricity investments is found to have reduced the agricultural employment share by 22 percentage points and increased the share of employment mostly in services. The paper then uses a spatial general equilibrium model to quantify the impacts of future regional transport investments, bundled with a large rural electrification program and trade facilitation measures to reduce border delays, on economic development in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad.
format Working Paper
author Lebrand, Mathilde
author_facet Lebrand, Mathilde
author_sort Lebrand, Mathilde
title Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Lake Chad Region
title_short Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Lake Chad Region
title_full Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Lake Chad Region
title_fullStr Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Lake Chad Region
title_full_unstemmed Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Lake Chad Region
title_sort infrastructure and structural change in the lake chad region
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2022
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/340011642085169636/Infrastructure-and-Structural-Change-in-the-Lake-Chad-Region
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36845
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