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The study examines how electricity, internet, and transport infrastructure, including their interactions, affect productivity gains and the movement of workers toward higher-productivity employment. It addresses limited evidence on how combinations of infrastructure investments shape structural change. Using reduced-form and spatial general equilibrium modeling, the analysis evaluates past impacts and planned investments for Cameroon, Nigeria, and Chad, also incorporating regional integration and cross-border linkages.","Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized  \nLake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum | Development for Peace  \nTechnical Paper 4.  \nInfrastructure and Structural Change in the Lake Chad Region  \nMathilde Lebrand (World Bank)  \n192   \n5.1 Introduction  \nInfrastructure investments can support economic development through both capital accumulation and structural transformation.340 Structural change, the movement of workers from lower to higher productivity employment, is seen as essential to growth in low-income countries. This paper investigates how investments in electricity, internet, transport infrastructure, and their interactions, affect economic development through productivity gains and structural change in countries around the Lake Chad. Roads provide access to markets, increasing both economic opportunities for local firmsand competition from other locations. Electricity and internet allow for modern production technologies and complement roads by boosting firm productivity. While the literature has studied specific infrastructure expansions as potential drivers of development, little has been done on the associated structural change and how the combinations of such investments will matter.  \nThis 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  \nnational and regional perspective, and with a particular focus on the Lake Chad area.  \nAll four countries, while being at different stages of development, face a similar challenge to generate more adequate-quality jobs through economic transformation. Employment in nonagricultural sectors is currently around 55 percent in Cameroon, 65 percent in Nigeria, and less than 30 percent in Niger and Chad (World Bank data, see Figure A5.1 in the appendix) . The share of employment in agriculture in Cameroon and Nigeria has been declining since the 1990s, while it has stagnated at high levels for Niger and Chad. Overall, the pace of structural change has remained slower than expected in the region, hence the need to better understand the role of infrastructure as a driver of structural transformation.  \nBecause the Lake Chad region is characterized by strong historical trade, ethnic, cultural, and political ties, which makes the areas within countries that comprise the region economically interdependent, we finally consider regional integration and crossborder linkages when assessing the impact of further infrastructure investments. The region and its vicinities host some key cities—such as Maiduguri in Nigeria, Maroua and Kousseri in Cameroon, N’Djamena in Chad, and Diffa in Niger—that could serve as a trade hub that could potentially drive the regional economy. However, connectivity across the borders (or between these cities within the national boundaries) is poor due to a lack of road infrastructure and volatile security situations that make trade or transportation of goods too costly. The paper complements the economic analysis of key infrastructure investments with additional border investments.  \n340 There are two approaches for explaining economic growth (McMillan et al., 2017) . 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