Sound infrastructure is critical for growth in East Africa. During 1995-2005, improvements in infrastructure boosted …). Although power infrastructure sapped growth in other regions of Africa, it contributed 0.2 percentage points per year growth in … East Africa. If East Africa's infrastructure could be improved to the level of the strongest performing country in Africa …

This paper provides a systematic, empirical assessment of the impact of infrastructure quality on the total factor … countries are divided into two blocks: high-income-growth and low-income-growth. Infrastructure quality has a low impact on TFP … heterogeneity in the individual infrastructure elements affecting countries from both blocks. Poor-quality electricity provision …

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 …

Africa has a severe shortage of infrastructure. Addressing this shortage involves both correcting the problems of poor …

Africa's export effects of the implemented export-facilitating quality infrastructure. Design/methodology/approach - An …Purpose - The continuous export challenges due to the inadequate quality infrastructure have brought to the fore the … importance of export facilitation-quality infrastructure. Different infrastructure investments have been implemented to …

Africa lags well behind other developing regions in infrastructure access. The limited gains of the 1990s have not … ahead of rapid demographic growth and even faster urbanization. As a result, if present trends continue, Africa is likely to …

Infrastructure is viewed as a crucial ingredient to foster growth and productivity. Amid the post -- global financial … crisis slowdown, Sub-Saharan Africa is in dire need to continue the growth momentum it experienced during the period of the … Africa Rising narrative. An emerging consensus in the empirical literature is that, under the right circumstances, an …

community to progressively increase access to modern infrastructure services in Africa … 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 …

returns to nonbeneficiary countries in recent years. Rather, it shows that public infrastructure, such as paved roads, has an …