Zambia Growth, Infrastructure, and Investments : Role for Public Private Partnership
The main purpose of this paper is to document and discuss infrastructure gaps, investment needs, and policy challenges in improving infrastructure services, with an emphasis on the role of Public Private Partnerships to access needed resources for...
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Format: | Policy Note |
Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2014
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/06/10991175/zambia-growth-infrastructure-investments-role-public-private-partnership http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19483 |
Summary: | The main purpose of this paper is to
document and discuss infrastructure gaps, investment needs,
and policy challenges in improving infrastructure services,
with an emphasis on the role of Public Private Partnerships
to access needed resources for investments in the various
sub-sectors for accelerated growth and poverty reduction in
Zambia. Zambia has made substantial progress in extending
some infrastructure services, including telecom and roads,
to its citizens. However, service delivery in other areas,
such as water and sanitation, and electricity has been poor.
With Zambia's annual growth increasing and demand for
infrastructure services escalating, infrastructure
bottlenecks are becoming more acute. This paper is targeted
at two main audiences: the first is the broader universe of
policymakers, planners, regulators, and technical
specialists directly concerned with the delivery of
infrastructure services. For these readers, the note
provides an overview of the physical, financial, social, and
institutional conditions of the country that cut across
subsectors. It compares Zambia's infrastructure
performance in terms of access rates, affordability,
quality, and financial viability of its services to those
observed in comparable countries. The second and related
audience is the authorities. The note provides them with a
sense of the foregone growth opportunities stemming from
policy imperfections, an assessment of investment needs for
accelerated growth, and how public private partnership can
play a role in resource mobilization for the investment
needs. The paper takes stock of the most relevant
infrastructure issues in the key sectors: energy, water and
sanitation and telecommunications. |
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