Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum
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World Bank, Washington, DC
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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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INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT, STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION, ECONOMIC INTERDEPENDENCE, REGIONAL INTEGRATION, ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE, ELECTRICITY, INTERNET, DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE, SPATIAL ECONOMICS, GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL