Africa's Infrastructure: A Time for Transformation

Infrastructures africaines

Cecilia Briceno-Garmendia and Vivien Foster

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Abstract: This study is part of the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD), a project designed to expand the world's knowledge of physical infrastructure in Africa. The AICD will provide a baseline against which future improvements in infrastructure services can be measured, making it possible to monitor the results achieved from donor support. It should also provide a more solid empirical foundation for prioritizing investments and designing policy reforms in the infrastructure sectors in Africa. The AICD is based on an unprecedented effort to collect detailed economic and technical data on the infrastructure sectors in Africa. The project has produced a series of original reports on public expenditure, spending needs, and sector performance in each of the main infrastructure sectors, including energy, information and communication technologies, irrigation, transport, and water and sanitation. The first phase of the AICD focused on 24 countries that together account for 85 percent of the gross domestic product, population, and infrastructure aid flows of Sub-Saharan Africa. Under a second phase of the project, coverage is expanding to include as many of the additional African countries as possible.

Keywords: Public; Sector; Economics; Infrastructure; Economics; and; Finance-Infrastructure; Economics; Finance; and; Financial; Sector; Development-Banks; &; Banking; Reform; Communities; and; Human; Settlements-Urban; Slums; Upgrading; Transport; Economics; Policy; and; Planning; Public; Sector; Development; Transport (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8213-8041-3
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