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Roads, Electricity, and Jobs: Evidence of Infrastructure Complementarity in Sub-Saharan Africa (English)

Evidence for road expansion and electrification as drivers of job creation is limited and mixed, with most studies having considered either one or the other, and only in isolation. This paper estimates the average and heterogeneous impacts of road and electricity investments and the interaction of the two on job creation over the past two decades in 27 countries of sub-Saharan Africa. Exploiting the exogenous location of ancestral ethnic homelands...
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Abbasi ,Mansoureh; Lebrand,Mathilde Sylvie Maria; Mongoue,Arcady Bluette; Pongou,Roland; Zhang,Fan.

Roads, Electricity, and Jobs: Evidence of Infrastructure Complementarity in Sub-Saharan Africa (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9976 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/970271647884335950

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