"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 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 … community to progressively increase access to modern infrastructure services in Africa. "--World Bank web site …

"The paper's objective is to explain factors underlying Africa's weak infrastructure endowment and to identify suitable … infrastructure goals for the region based on benchmarking against international peers. The authors use a dataset covering the stocks … of key infrastructure-including information and communication technology (ICT), power, roads, and water-across 155 …

"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 … infrastructure services for 39 African countries in three key infrastructure sectors: telecommunications, electricity, and roads …

"An adequate supply of infrastructure services has long been viewed by both academics and policy makers as a key … infrastructure performance, and an increasing number of observers point to deficient infrastructure as a major obstacle for growth … and poverty reduction across the region. This paper offers an empirical assessment of the impact of infrastructure …

quantify the burden on governments of infrastructure policy and implementation decisions. This simple-to-apply model provides … insight into three key components of hidden costs that affect infrastructure-poor bill collection rates, excessive losses due … infrastructure policy dialogue and influencing decisionmakers who allocate scarce budgetary resources. "--World Bank web site …

"Empirical explorations of the growth and productivity impacts of infrastructure have been characterized by ambiguous … infrastructure overprovision, simultaneity between infrastructure provision and growth, and the possibility of multiple (hence … indirect) channels of influence between infrastructure and productivity improvements. The authors explore these possibilities …

"The paper provides a first, systematic benchmarking of infrastructure performance in the Southern African Customs … countries using a new World Bank international data base with objective and perception-based indicators of infrastructure … performance from over 200 countries. The analysis suggests important comparative gaps in all major infrastructure sectors …

"The paper provides a first systematic, comprehensive benchmarking of South Africa's infrastructure performance in four …-based indicators of infrastructure performance from over 200 countries. Specifically, the paper seeks to answer a number of relevant … questions: How does South Africa compare on major indicators of infrastructure sector performance against the relevant country …