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Sudan Country Economic Memorandum : Realizing the Potential for Diversified Development

World Bank Group - 2015

From 1999 to 2011 Sudan had a period where it benefited from extensive discoveries of natural wealth through oil. But … to invest natural resource rents into economic diversification efforts. Relief to Sudan's external debt crisis will be … on growth and diversification with the aim of defining a suitable approach for growth and diversification for Sudan. The …

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Directions for ReformSouth Sudan Country Economic Memorandum : A Country Economic Memorandum for Recovery and Resilience in South Sudan

World Bank Group - 2022

South Sudan is at a crossroads in its recovery, reconstruction, and development. Having gained independence in 2011 … due to the war in Ukraine have on balance affected South Sudan adversely. A decade after independence, South Sudan remains … poverty. Overall, the conflict is estimated to have cost South Sudan an accumulated loss in aggregate GDP of some USD 81 …

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Assessing Uzbekistan's Transition : Country Economic Memorandum

Izvorski, Ivailo - 2021

Uzbekistan's transition from planning to market started almost thirty years ago following its independence from the Soviet Union. For most of this period, economic modernization and transformation were stalled, with little change in institutions and policies from those prevailing at the time of...

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Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum : Technical Paper 2. Climate Change, Rural Livelihoods, and Urbanization - Evidence from the Permanent Shrinking of Lake Chad

Jedwab, Remi - 2021

There is a vast economic literature studying the effects of climate change on long-run growth, migration, urbanization, and human capital, among several other outcomes. The paper is structured as follows: Section 3.2 dives into some of the physical characteristics of Lake Chad and its water...

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Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum : Technical Paper 5. Conflict and Climate Change in the Lake Chad Region

Fisker, Peter - 2021

Peace and security are basic conditions for economic and social development. Conflict, on the other hand, can reverse years of economic growth and induce long-term harm on almost all aspects of development. For the past decade, the Lake Chad region has been the setting of conflicts between...

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Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum : Technical Paper 3. Estimating the Spillover Economic Effects of Foreign Conflict - Evidence from Boko Haram

Jedwab, Remi - 2021

Violent conflicts present a formidable threat to regional economies. Throughout the world, border regions in many countries are possibly impacted by the cross-border economic effects of regional insurgencies in neighboring countries or national state failures, id est "bad neighbors". This raises...

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Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum : Development for Peace

Granguillhome, Rogelio - 2021

This report sheds light on the interlocked long-term territorial development challenges and the recently realized systemic risks affecting the Lake Chad region. It summarizes the findings of seven technical papers, each investigating different aspects of the interlinked challenges faced by the...

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Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum : Technical Paper 6. Building Rural Development in the Lake Chad Region

Blankespoor, Brian - 2021

This paper examines the relationship between access to markets and land cultivation following Berg and others (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...

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Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum : Technical Paper 4. Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Lake Chad Region

Lebrand, Mathild - 2021

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...

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Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum : Technical Paper 1. Socioeconomic Trends in the Lake Chad Region

Masaki, Takaaki - 2021

The Lake Chad region, which is an economically-and socially integrated area spanning across four countries of Chad, Cameroon, Niger, and Nigeria in north-west Africa, has been trapped in a vicious circle of suboptimal territorial development and fragility. This note shows that the Lake Chad...

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