The Pacific Infrastructure Challenge : A Review of Obstacles and Opportunities for Improving Performance in the Pacific Islands
This discussion document is aimed at encouraging debate about the role infrastructure plays in growth and development in Pacific countries. The report examines infrastructure performance in Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Kiribati, Mars...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/680631468249703830/The-Pacific-infrastructure-challenge-a-review-of-obstacles-and-opportunities-for-improving-performance-in-the-Pacific-Islands http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36687 |
| Summary: | This discussion document is aimed at
encouraging debate about the role infrastructure plays in
growth and development in Pacific countries. The report
examines infrastructure performance in Fiji, Federated
States of Micronesia (FSM), Kiribati, Marshall Islands,
Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-
Leste, Tonga and Vanuatu. It identifies opportunities and
obstacles to improved infrastructure performance. It begins
by examining infrastructure performance in Pacific and
comparator countries on indicators for service coverage,
quality, cost and economic viability. This is used us to
establish whether sector performance is relatively good or
relatively poor in each country. Performance is reviewed in
the following infrastructure sectors: telecommunications,
electricity, water and sanitation, roads, airports and
aviation, and ports and shipping. Although some utilities
perform well, and infrastructure access is adequate in some
(mainly urban) areas, Pacific countries do not perform as
well as comparator countries on most key performance
indicators. In addition, levels of infrastructure access,
quality, and efficiency vary between countries of a similar
size and income level within the Pacific region itself. |
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