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Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Horn of Africa / Matias Herrera Dappe.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Herrera Dappe, Matias.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Electricity.
- General Equilibrium Model.
- Infrastructure.
- Infrastructure Economics.
- Infrastructure Economics and Finance.
- Infrastructure Investment.
- Internet Access.
- Road Infrastructure.
- Roads and Highways.
- Structural Transformation.
- Transport.
- Transport Corridor.
- Local Subjects:
- Electricity.
- General Equilibrium Model.
- Infrastructure.
- Infrastructure Economics.
- Infrastructure Economics and Finance.
- Infrastructure Investment.
- Internet Access.
- Road Infrastructure.
- Roads and Highways.
- Structural Transformation.
- Transport.
- Transport Corridor.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (46 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2021.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- 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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