ADDIS ABABA, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has reiterated that infrastructure deficit in Africa remains a major challenge to trade facilitation, intra-regional trade as well as economic development and transformation on the continent. According to a statement from EC...
Africainfrastructure tradepublic goodTie-in AidAs a government-supplied public good, infrastructure facilitates economic development by promoting marketization. Despite an infrastructure deficit in African countries, some governments lack the necessary finance and/or political will to provide this public good...
FIPHS Infrastructure Limited is a response to a high infrastructure deficit in Africa which has given rise to the need to build an indigenous world-class infrastructure development company. FIPHS Infrastructure offers a broad spectrum of solutions and expertise to the infrastructure development sector ...
Raila Odinga, AU high representative for infrastructure development in Africa, told a forum in Nairobi that bridging infrastructure financing should be a priority in stimulating growth on the continent. "Africa continues to be characterized by an infrastructural deficit, a situation that remains critical...
Africa has experienced rapid and exponential economic growth in the last decade and a half. This growth has occurred despite the continent’s huge infrastructure deficit, one of the reasons why economists and policy commentators question Africa’s economic growth fundamentals. They argue that economic...
Juan Pedro TreviñoNathalie PouokamRegional Economic Outlook: Sub-Saharan Africa. Staying the CourseMecagni M. et al., 2014, "Addressing the Infrastructure Deficit in Sub-Saharan Africa", Technical Chapter in Regional Economic Outlook: Sub-Saharan Africa - Staying the Course (Washington, October)...
Does infrastructure really explain economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa? In light of Africa's palpable deficit in public infrastructure, we use System GMM to estimate a model of economic growth augmented by an infrastructure variable, for a panel of 45 Sub-Saharan African countries, over the ...
Despite the Energy, Infrastructure and Real Estate markets in Africa having high and stable returns, only a few institutional advisors risk and ability to mitigate them. Brickstone is the “spur” Africa has been searching for to quicken its gap in its infrastructure deficit; while providing ...
"Through its contribution to the TAZARA (a 1,860 kilometer railway connecting Tanzania and Zambia commissioned in 1975) when Western powers and institutions baulked at the idea, China has an illustrious history of being a dependable solution to Africa's infrastructure deficit, " he added. ...
JOHANNESBURG, July 26 (Xinhua) -- BRICS leaders reaffirm their support for sustainable infrastructure development in Africa, including addressing the infrastructure financing deficit, according to a declaration released here on Thursday. The emerging-market bloc of BRICS, which groups Brazil, Russia, Ind...