Making Sense of Africa’s Infrastructure Endowment : A Benchmarking Approach

Making Sense of Africa’s Infrastructure Endowment : A Benchmarking Approach

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 coveri...

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Main Authors:	Yepes, Tito, Pierce, Justin, Foster, Vivien
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	BENCHMARK LEVEL BENCHMARKING BENCHMARKING APPROACH BENCHMARKING TECHNIQUES COMMUNITIES DEFICITS DRIVING ECONOMETRICS ELASTICITIES ELASTICITY ELECTRICITY GENERATION EMPLOYMENT ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ETHNIC GROUPS FINANCING SOURCES FIXED EFFECTS SPECIFICATION FRONTIER PRODUCTION GENERATING CAPACITY GENERATION CAPACITY GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME ELASTICITY INFLATION INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT INFRASTRUCTURE PERFORMANCE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS INFRASTRUCTURE SECTORS INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES INTERNATIONAL BENCHMARKING KEY INFRASTRUCTURE MODEL SPECIFICATIONS NATURAL RESOURCES OPERATING ENVIRONMENT POPULATION DENSITY PRIVATE SECTOR REGULATORS ROAD ROAD NETWORK ROADS SANITATION TRANSPARENCY TRANSPORT TRUE URBAN GROWTH URBAN POPULATION URBANIZATION YARDSTICK COMPETITION
Online Access:	http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20090430140801 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4115

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