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Ghana???s Infrastructure : A Continental Perspective

Foster, Vivien; Pushak, Nataliya - 2012

Infrastructure contributed just over one percentage point to Ghana's annual per capital GDP growth during the 2000s … rate by more than 2.7 percentage points. Ghana has an advanced infrastructure platform when compared with other low … water supply sectors. Ghana s most pressing challenges lie in the power sector, where outmoded transmission and distribution …

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Beyond Keynesianism : Global Infrastructure Investments in Times of Crisis

Lin, Justin Yifu; Doemeland, Doerte - 2012

As the world recovers only slowly from the 2008 financial crisis and Europe is facing a looming debt crisis, concerns have increased that the "new normal" -- a period of high unemployment, low returns on investment, high risks, and low growth -- may become protracted in advanced economies. If...

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Tanzania???s Infrastructure : A Continental Perspective

Shkaratan, Maria - 2012

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 could increase by 3.4 percent. Tanzania has made...

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Uganda???s Infrastructure : A Continental Perspective

Ranganathan, Rupa; Foster, Vivien - 2012

Uganda has made substantial progress on its infrastructure agenda in recent years. The early and successful ICT reform detonated a huge expansion in mobile coverage and penetration resulting in a highly competitive market. Power sector restructuring has paved the way for a rapid doubling of...

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Infrastructure Investments under Uncertainty with the Possibility of Retrofit : Theory and Simulations

Strand, Jon; Miller, Sebastian; Siddiqui, Sauleh - 2012

Investments in large, long-lived, energy-intensive infrastructure investments using fossil fuels increase longer-term energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, unless the plant is shut down early or undergoes costly retrofit later. These investments will depend on expectations of retrofit costs...

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C??te d???Ivoire???s Infrastructure : A Continental Perspective

Foster, Vivien; Pushak, Nataliya - 2012

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...

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Kenya???s Infrastructure : A Continental Perspective

Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia M.; Shkaratan, Maria - 2012

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 percentage points. Several accomplishments are notable....

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Liberia's Infrastructure : A Continental Perspective

Foster, Vivien; Pushak, Nataliya - 2012

Liberia's power generating capacity and national grid were completely demolished during 14 years of civil war. Piped water access fell from 15 percent of the population in 1986 to less than 3 percent in 2008. War also left the national road network in a state of severe disrepair. Since the...

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Malawi???s Infrastructure : A Continental Perspective

Foster, Vivien; Shkaratan, Maria - 2012

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...

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Ethiopia???s Infrastructure : A Continental Perspective

Foster, Vivien; Morella, Elvira - 2012

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....

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