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Infrastructure development in Sierra Leone contributed about half a percentage point to the economy's per capita growth … rate in 2003-07. But if Sierra Leone could upgrade its infrastructure to the level of the best performer in Africa, per … flourishing at every level in Sierra Leone. But the 11-year civil war destroyed the country's infrastructure, and rebuilding the …
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Infrastructure development in Sierra Leone contributed about half a percentage point to the economy's per capita growth … rate in 2003-07. But if Sierra Leone could upgrade its infrastructure to the level of the best performer in Africa, per … flourishing at every level in Sierra Leone. But the 11-year civil war destroyed the country's infrastructure, and rebuilding the …
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This document provides an overview of the infrastructure megaproject industry (IMPI), the financial implications of … cost and schedule overruns, and the trend towards the future impacts these may have on the global infrastructure sphere … methodologies must evolve to meet the demands of future infrastructure to be able to deliver the projects successfully and with the …
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Uganda has made substantial progress on its infrastructure agenda in recent years. The early and successful ICT reform …'s infrastructure challenges will require sustained expenditure of around $1.4 billion per year over the next decade, strongly skewed … towards capital expenditure. Uganda already spends approximately $1 billion per year on infrastructure, equivalent to about 11 …
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Infrastructure improvements boosted growth in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) by 1.2 percentage … growth contributions, while power sector inadequacy had a negative impact. Infrastructure improvements that matched those of … potentially large economies. The economic geography reinforces the importance of regional infrastructure development to create a …
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influx of already-planned investment on the order of $15-20 billion. Mozambique's infrastructure is well developed in some … sectors, including its east-west transport infrastructure, power grid, and water and sanitation networks. But the nation still … year on infrastructure during the late 2000s, with as much as $204 million lost annually to inefficiencies. Comparing …
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The poor state of Cameroon's infrastructure is a key bottleneck to the nation's economic growth. From 2000 to 2005 … capita, while deficient power infrastructure held growth back by 0.28 points per capita. If Cameroon could improve its … infrastructure to the level of Africa's middle-income countries, it could raise its per capita economic growth rate by about 3 …
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Despite general economic decline and power-supply deficiencies, infrastructure made a modest net contribution of just …'s infrastructure endowment to that of the region's middle-income countries could boost annual growth by about 2.4 percentage points …. Zimbabwe made significant progress in infrastructure in its early period as an independent state, building a national …
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Infrastructure contributed just over one percentage point to Ghana's annual per capital GDP growth during the 2000s …. Raising the country?s infrastructure endowment to that of the region's middle-income countries could boost the annual growth … rate by more than 2.7 percentage points. Ghana has an advanced infrastructure platform when compared with other low …
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Infrastructure improvements contributed 0.6 percentage points to Zambia's annual per capital GDP growth over the past … the growth rate down by more than 0.1 percentage points. Improving Zambia's infrastructure endowment could boost growth by … every other aspect of infrastructure, rural Zambians lag well behind their African peers. In a country where 70 percent of …
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