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Policy Brief September 2019 Number 46 اﻟﻤﺮﻛﺰ اﻟﻠﺒﻨﺎﻧﻲ ﻟﻠﺪراﺳﺎت The Lebanese Center LCPS for Policy Studies Policy Brief CEDRE Capital Investment Plan: Scrutinizing the Allocation of Projects and Funds Across Regions About the authors Sami Atallah, Georgia Dagher, and Mounir Mahmalat Mounir Mahmalat is a Ph.D. (c.) in economics at Dublin City University, Ireland; fellow at Harvard Univer- sity, Department of Government; Executive Summary American University of Beirut, Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Large disparities in infrastructure quality have exacerbated persistent Studies; and a doctoral fellow at LCPS. His scholarship focuses on regional inequalities in economic development. In order to tackle this the political economy of reform, specifically in the Middle East and issue, the government developed a Capital Investment Plan (CIP), outlining Lebanon. He holds a master’s degree in International Management and 269 projects in all major infrastructure sectors of the economy. The plan two bachelor's degrees in Engi- neering and Music Performance. was presented at the Conférence économique pour le développement, par Georgia Dagher is a researcher at les réformes et avec les entreprises (CEDRE), and received funding pledges the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies. She graduated from the amounting to $11.06 billion, equivalent to roughly a fifth of the national University of Edinburgh with a degree in Political Science and GDP. As the prevailing patterns of resource allocation have failed to Quantitative Methods. Her work at LCPS focuses mainly on studying reduce regional inequality in the past, the geographical distribution of voter behavior, parliamentary elections, as well as monitoring funds outlined in the CIP warrants scrutiny. To that end, this brief the Lebanese government's reform programs. analyzes the allocation of infrastructure projects summarized in the CIP Sami Atallah is the director of and maps the distribution of funds across regions and districts. We test the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies. He is currently leading the relationship of a set of socio-economic variables to the allocation of several policy studies on youth social identity and political funds per district to assess the extent to which the distribution of projects engagement, electoral behavior, political and social sectarianism, follows assessments of need. We find that a poorer quality of infrastructure, and the role of municipalities in dealing with the refugee crisis. lower level of economic development or amount of municipal funding, as He is the co-editor of Democracy, Decentralization, and Service well as a higher prevalence of poverty or presence of refugees fail to Delivery in the Arab World (with Mona Harb, Beirut, LCPS 2015), explain the large variation in the allocation of funds across districts. co-editor of The Future of Petroleum in Lebanon: Energy, Politics, and Economic Growth (with Bassam Fattouh, I.B. Tauris, 2019), and co-editor of The Lebanese Parliament 2009-2018: From Illegal Extensions to Vacuum (with Nayla Geagea, 2018). 2 LCPS Policy Brief 1 Introduction The number of projects and their allocation to governorates When the international community convened on 6 April 2018 for the Conférence our analysis identifies slightly économique pour le développement, par les réformes et avec les entreprises deviate from prior analyses published by the World Bank. (CEDRE), the Lebanese government presented the Capital Investment Plan These differences relate to the 1 analytical perspective we take (CIP). The plan provides details on 269 infrastructure projects, worth roughly in this brief, which focuses on $23 billion, in all key sectors of the economy including electricity, water, and the distribution of funds on a district level, rather than an transportation, in order to ameliorate Lebanon’s dilapidated public infrastructure. in-depth sectoral assessment. The geographic distribution of The aim of the conference was for the Lebanese government to seek funding projects has—to our knowledge from international donors, who eventually pledged more than $11.06 billion —not been studied in extant literature. See the annex of in soft loans to finance the CIP.2 this brief for more details on the methodology and: World In the CIP, the government claims that ‘reducing inequality’ was the central Bank. 2018. ‘Strategic rationale for the choice and allocation of projects.3 According to the plan, Assessment: A Capital Investment Plan for Lebanon.’ new infrastructure in key sectors should help alleviate structural deficiencies 2 of poorer districts and ‘mitigate the impacts of the Syrian crisis [sic].’4 As a Including $10.2 billion in loans (out of which $9.9 billion are large body of literature shows, the reduction of inequality has a number of on concessional terms) and 5 $0.86 billion in grants (which positive effects on economic and political development. With a size of more include grants to subsidize loans). than 40% of Lebanon’s total GDP—which was roughly $52 billion in 2017—the 3 CIP offers a unique opportunity to address existing shortages in the provision Government of Lebanon. 2018. ‘Capital Investment Program of public infrastructure and ensure a balanced development across regions Report,’ p. i. http://www.pcm. gov.lb/Admin/DynamicFile.as and constituencies. However, as the prevailing patterns of resource allocation px?PHName=Document&PageI have failed to ensure balanced economic development and a reduction of D=11231&published=1 inequality in the past,6 the allocation of funds in the CIP warrants scrutiny. 4 Ibid. This brief analyzes the allocation of infrastructure projects outlined in the 5 CIP. We review all 269 projects to identify their investment volume, location Alesina, A., S. Michalopoulos, at the district level, sector, and implementation cycle. Analyzing the allocation and E. Papaioannou. 2016. ‘Ethnic Inequality.’ Journal of of funds and infrastructure projects matters for two main reasons. First, like Political Economy. https://doi.org/10.1086/685300 other public resources, the assignment of infrastructure projects can be used 7 6 as a patronage tool by political elites. Influential politicians and individuals Assouad, L. 2010. 'Rethinking might abuse their power to allocate funds to connected firms and regions, which the Lebanese Economic Miracle: The Extreme Concentration of then undermines the officially stated goal of combatting regional inequalities. Income and Wealth in Lebanon 2005-2014.' WID.World Working Second, infrastructure projects have positive spillover effects on the local Paper Series; Salti, N. and J. economy by directly and indirectly creating jobs, generating additional revenues Chaaban. 2010. 'The Role of Sectarianism in the Allocation for local businesses through the influx of external funds, and, eventually, of Public Expenditure in Postwar Lebanon.' International ameliorating local infrastructure. The mere size of the program in relation to Journal of Middle East Studies. national GDP therefore constitutes a significant source of revenue that can https://doi.org/10.1017/S00 20743810000851 spur economic growth and employment. 7 Our analysis proceeds in two steps. First, we map out the variation in the Leenders, R. 2012. 'Spoils of Truce: Corruption and State- allocation of projects across sectors and regions. We show that the transport Building in Postwar Lebanon.' and electricity sectors receive the largest shares of projects and funds, while (Ithaca: Cornell University Press); Diwan, I. and J. I. Haidar. 2017. solid waste, telecommunication, and infrastructure for cultural sites receive 'Do Political Connections Reduce Job Creation? Evidence the least. On a regional basis, Mount Lebanon receives most funds and projects from Lebanon.' across all sectors, while the Bekaa, Beirut, and Akkar receive the fewest. http://scholar.harvard.edu/fi les/haidar/files/diwanhaidar- Moreover, the government prioritizes national projects, such as the expansion pcjc-01142017.pdf CEDRE Capital Investment Plan: Scrutinizing the Allocation of Projects and Funds Across Regions 3 of the Rafic Hariri International Airport, the rehabilitation of the Rene Mouawad Air Base in Tripoli, and the improvement of telecommunication infrastructure. Lastly, projects in Metn, Akkar, and Batroun are more likely to be implemented, as the CIP assigns them earlier investments cycles and thereby a higher likelihood of receiving funding. Second, we examine the drivers of project allocation across districts, and test whether their geographical variation can be explained by need assessments. Following the CIP’s official rationale, less developed regions should receive more funds and projects than wealthier ones in order to decrease inequality and ensure balanced development. Our results indicate that contrary to the government’s narrative, assessments based on need fail to explain the varia- tion of funds and projects across regions. We find that districts Contrary to the government’s narrative, with higher poverty rates or assessments based on need fail to share of Syrian refugees, as well explain the variation of funds and as those with lower levels of projects across regions economic development, poorer infrastructure quality, and lower levels of municipal revenues do not receive a higher share of funds for projects. These results suggest that factors other than regional levels of development seem to have influenced on the decisions for resource allocation in the elabo- ration of the CIP. Whether this influence relates to technical, political, or institutional
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