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Connecting the African Continent
Peter Dearden, Minouche Shafik and Leonard Tedd, World Economics, June 2011
This paper provides an overview of the contribution of economic infrastructure to growth and human development in Africa. Challenges for infrastructure provision including finance, recurrent costs and public-sector responsibilities are covered, together with assessment of the global trends of urbanisation, climate change and future resource scarcity. The paper describes and explains the work of the UK Department for International Development on economic infrastructure in Africa, covering innovations in areas of private-sector infrastructure, regional approaches, improving the investment climate, and international coordination. The paper concludes with several policy directions for current political processes.
Tags:
Africa
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Climate change
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Corruption
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Development
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Development strategy
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Energy
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Growth
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Hydropower
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Infrastructure
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Mozambique
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Nigeria
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Poverty
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Power
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Public sector
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Sub-saharan Africa
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Tanzania
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UK
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Water
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Zambia
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Zimbabwe
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