Targeted and tailored investments could significantly enhance mobility and trade efficiency across the African continent. A recent study by the Joint Research Centre assessed the potential impact of development initiatives in 11 strategic corridors running through Africa, aiming to strengthen transport and trade efficiency, reduce the carbon footprint and protect biodiversity, enhance digitalisation, improve accessibility, unlock productive areas and support value chains.
The assessment reveals that investments in transport and accessibility would deliver the most prominent results, alongside actions reducing the carbon footprint and preserving biodiversity. Targeted support to productivity, especially in West Africa, could also generate substantial benefits. Digitalisation, on the other hand, appears to pose more challenges.
