Regional Integration

Featured {THEME} Sectors

• Infrastructure

  

  Building a framework
  across national borders

  Regional integration is vital to creating the infrastructure that many poor countries are unable to build on their own: trade corridors, transport networks, energy development, water resources management, and telecommunications connectivity. Effective collaboration among countries can meet the critical gaps in basic access and service delivery that promote growth and development.

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  Results

  From 2000-2010, with IDA funding approximately 260,000 km roads and 10,700 bridges were constructed, rehabilitated or maintained, benefiting about 75 million people.

  • The Reality

    1 billion of the world’s poorest people are still without access to roads.

  • The Need

    $93 billion is needed each year in infrastructure investment in Africa to reduce poverty by half from 1990 levels

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• Trade

  

  Helping poor countries
  trade up for growth

  International trade plays an important role in the fight against poverty. It creates the potential for higher economic growth and employment. IDA’s aid for trade financing nearly doubled from 2005 to 2008 in support of regional integration, export development and competitiveness, and trade facilitation. However, many low-income countries still face supply-side constraints that impede their integration into the global economy.

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  Results

  IDA's aid for trade financing, which supports 123 projects a year, rose to an average of $3.9 billion a year for 2007 and 2008. More than a third of this lending is in sub-Saharan Africa.

  • The Reality

    $3.9 billion the amount IDA provided in aid for trade financing in 2008

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