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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okr-10986-365772021-11-17T05:10:38Z Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum : Technical Paper 6. Building Rural Development in the Lake Chad Region Blankespoor, Brian RURAL LABOR MARKET MARKET ACCESS AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY TRANSPORT CONNECTIVITY ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE TRADE DISRUPTION CONFLICT INSURGENCY 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. 2021-11-16T20:07:55Z 2021-11-16T20:07:55Z 2021-11-09 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/158831636447555879/Technical-Paper-6-Building-Rural-Development-in-the-Lake-Chad-Region http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36577 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Country Economic Memorandum Africa Africa Western and Central (AFW) Central Africa West Africa Cameroon Chad Niger Nigeria |
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RURAL LABOR MARKET MARKET ACCESS AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY TRANSPORT CONNECTIVITY ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE TRADE DISRUPTION CONFLICT INSURGENCY Blankespoor, Brian Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum : Technical Paper 6. Building Rural Development in the Lake Chad Region |
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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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Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum : Technical Paper 6. Building Rural Development in the Lake Chad Region |
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Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum : Technical Paper 6. Building Rural Development in the Lake Chad Region |
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Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum : Technical Paper 6. Building Rural Development in the Lake Chad Region |
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Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum : Technical Paper 6. Building Rural Development in the Lake Chad Region |
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Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum : Technical Paper 6. Building Rural Development in the Lake Chad Region |
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lake chad regional economic memorandum : technical paper 6. building rural development in the lake chad region |
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2021 |
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