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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okr-10986-41152021-04-23T14:02:15Z Making Sense of Africa’s Infrastructure Endowment : A Benchmarking Approach Yepes, Tito Pierce, Justin Foster, Vivien 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 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 covering the stocks of key infrastructure-including information and communication technology (ICT), power, roads, and water-across 155 developing countries over the period 1960 to 2005. The paper also examines subregional differences within Africa. They make use of regression techniques to control for a comprehensive set of economic, demographic, geographic, and historic conditioning factors, as well as adjusting for potential endogeneities. Results show that Africa lags behind all other regions of the developing world in its infrastructure endowment, except in ICT. By far the largest gaps arise in the power sector, with generating capacity and household access to electricity at half the levels observed in South Asia. While it is often assumed that Africa's infrastructure deficit is largely a reflection of its relatively low income levels, the authors find that African countries have much more limited infrastructure than income peers in other parts of the developing world. Countries that face the most challenging environment, with low population density, weak governance, and history of conflict, have the poorest infrastructure endowments. At the outset of the data series, Africa was doing significantly better than other developing regions for road density, generation capacity, and fixed-line telephones, but Africa's relative position has deteriorated over time. The most dramatic loss of ground has come in electrical generating capacity, which has stagnated since 1980. 2012-03-19T19:10:15Z 2012-03-19T19:10:15Z 2009-04-01 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 English Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 4912 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Africa Africa |
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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 Yepes, Tito Pierce, Justin Foster, Vivien Making Sense of Africa’s Infrastructure Endowment : A Benchmarking Approach |
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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 covering the stocks of key
infrastructure-including information and communication
technology (ICT), power, roads, and water-across 155
developing countries over the period 1960 to 2005. The paper
also examines subregional differences within Africa. They
make use of regression techniques to control for a
comprehensive set of economic, demographic, geographic, and
historic conditioning factors, as well as adjusting for
potential endogeneities. Results show that Africa lags
behind all other regions of the developing world in its
infrastructure endowment, except in ICT. By far the largest
gaps arise in the power sector, with generating capacity and
household access to electricity at half the levels observed
in South Asia. While it is often assumed that Africa's
infrastructure deficit is largely a reflection of its
relatively low income levels, the authors find that African
countries have much more limited infrastructure than income
peers in other parts of the developing world. Countries that
face the most challenging environment, with low population
density, weak governance, and history of conflict, have the
poorest infrastructure endowments. At the outset of the data
series, Africa was doing significantly better than other
developing regions for road density, generation capacity,
and fixed-line telephones, but Africa's relative
position has deteriorated over time. The most dramatic loss
of ground has come in electrical generating capacity, which
has stagnated since 1980. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Yepes, Tito Pierce, Justin Foster, Vivien |
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Yepes, Tito Pierce, Justin Foster, Vivien |
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Yepes, Tito |
| title |
Making Sense of Africa’s Infrastructure Endowment : A Benchmarking Approach |
| title_short |
Making Sense of Africa’s Infrastructure Endowment : A Benchmarking Approach |
| title_full |
Making Sense of Africa’s Infrastructure Endowment : A Benchmarking Approach |
| title_fullStr |
Making Sense of Africa’s Infrastructure Endowment : A Benchmarking Approach |
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Making Sense of Africa’s Infrastructure Endowment : A Benchmarking Approach |
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making sense of africa’s infrastructure endowment : a benchmarking approach |
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2012 |
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