From 1994 onward, Bolivia undertook a major reform of its infrastructure sectors. Foster and Irusta examine the impact … terms of access to services. Different policies adopted across the infrastructure sectors led to diverging outcomes.In the … the poorest neighborhoods of La Paz and El Alto.This paper - a product of the Finance, Private Sector, and Infrastructure …

"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 …

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 …