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community to progressively increase access to modern infrastructure services in Africa. "--World Bank web site … infrastructure services. In this paper, we use Demographic and Health Surveys from a larger sample of sub-Saharan African countries …) telephone has increased rapidly. The decline has been primarily in the urban areas while the infrastructure coverage has either …
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"The paper's objective is to explain factors underlying Africa's weak infrastructure endowment and to identify suitable … assumed that Africa's infrastructure deficit is largely a reflection of its relatively low income levels, the authors find …, have the poorest infrastructure endowments. At the outset of the data series, Africa was doing significantly better than …
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, with most of the contribution coming from more, rather than better, infrastructure. Across Africa, infrastructure …"The goal of the paper is to provide a comprehensive assessment of the impact of infrastructure development on growth … the impact on per capita growth of faster accumulation of infrastructure stocks and of enhancement in the quality of …
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"This paper discusses mechanisms of grand corruption in private sector utility provision in developing countries. By the term "grand corruption," the authors abstract from the petty corruption that consumers experience - for example, when firms and individuals pay bribes to get water delivery or...
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"This paper uses a new dataset, "WATSAN," of private sector participation (PSP) projects for water and sanitation in developing countries to examine the determinants of the number of projects signed for each country between 1990 and 2004. The new dataset improves on existing sources, in...
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"The authors complement the existing knowledge in the renegotiation literature on infrastructure concessions by …
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Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) Act to remove the main impediments to private investment in infrastructure sectors. The … main infrastructure facilities in transport, water, electricity, and telecommunications. Despite this progress, the Korean …
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larger effort in the group to study the impact of infrastructure reform on poor households"--World Bank web site …
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