The World Bank’s dedication to enhancing people’s livelihoods by reestablishing the social contract via improved service delivery in the Central Sahel is highlighted in the second semester 2024 edition of the Central Sahel Monitor. The resource sector and services drove the Central Sahel’s GDP growth, which grew from 3 percent in 2023 to 4 percent in 2024. This was enough to reduce poverty and produce modest GDP per capita growth of 0.9 percent. But because to limited diversity, instability, unclear policies, and floods, development is still small. With the exception of Chad, where the refugee crisis has made poverty worse, the region’s poverty rate has decreased. Meanwhile, there is still insecurity. The primary drivers of growth in Burkina Faso were services and agriculture, but in Mali, telecommunications and agriculture—particularly the cotton sector—were responsible for growth. Despite the Benin-Niger pipeline and border interruptions, Niger’s industrial sector profited greatly from increased oil exports.
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