Infrastructure has particular challenges in public procurement, because it is highly complex and customized and often … requires economic, political and social considerations from a long time horizon. To deliver public infrastructure services to … it would be a good option to contract out infrastructure to the private sector under high-powered incentive mechanisms …

Infrastructure projects are often technically complicated and highly customized. Therefore, procurement competition … suggests that quality is of particular importance in large infrastructure projects and auctioneers cannot easily substitute …

Infrastructure contributed 1.3 percentage points to Tanzania's annual per capital GDP growth during the 2000s. If the … country's infrastructure endowment were improved to the level of the African leader, Mauritius, annual per capita growth rates … transport sectors in Africa. The power sector poses Tanzania's most serious infrastructure challenge. Despite significant …

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 …

Infrastructure contributed 1.8 percentage points to Cote d'Ivoire's annual per capita GDP growth over the mid-2000s … before conflict began to erase the country's infrastructure and its growth contributions. Raising the country …'s infrastructure endowment to the level of the region's middle-income countries could boost the growth rate by a further 2 percentage …

In the past decade, infrastructure contributed 0.5 percentage points to Kenya's annual per capita GDP growth. Raising … the country s infrastructure endowment to that of Africa's middle-income countries could increase that contribution by 3 … by approximately 1 percent of GDP. But the power sector continues to pose Kenya's greatest infrastructure challenge. Over …

three times the regional average. Addressing Liberia's public infrastructure needs will require sustained expenditures of … spending taken into account, Liberia spent around $90 million a year on infrastructure. An additional $17 million was lost to … infrastructure targets in a reasonable time. Without these, Liberians may have to wait for up to 40 years to achieve the targets. …

Infrastructure contributed 1.2 percentage points to Malawi's annual per capital GDP growth over the past decade …. Raising the country's infrastructure endowment to that of the region s middle-income countries could increase that … contribution by 3.5 percentage points. Malawi's successes in infrastructure development include reaching the Millennium Development …

Infrastructure contributed 0.6 percentage points to Ethiopia's annual per capita GDP growth over the last decade …. Raising the country's infrastructure endowment to that of the region's middle-income countries could add an additional 3 … percentage points to infrastructure's contribution to growth. Ethiopia's infrastructure successes include developing Ethiopia …

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 …