Infrastructure challenges: thinking infrastructure differently for more hopeful African futures

Idalina Baptista

Chapter 30 in Handbook of African Economic Development, 2024, pp 448-461 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter provides a multidimensional take on how infrastructures matter to African economic development. It starts with an overview of how infrastructure is seen in economic development circles and then offers insights into the social, political, and environmental dimensions of infrastructure. Finally, it reviews the tension between the provision of formal, networked infrastructure services and situated, heterogeneous solutions in urban Africa. Overall, the chapter seeks to explore what infrastructure does for (and to) people and what the socio-spatial effects of infrastructure are, with a view to fostering more hopeful futures for infrastructure development in urban Africa.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Geography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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