Infrastructure in Africa: Lessons for Future Development

✍ Scribed by Mthuli Ncube (editor); Charles Leyeka Lufumpa (editor)

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 722
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Good infrastructure is essential for socio-economic growth and sustainable development. Safe and accessible water supplies, reliable energy, good transport networks and communications technology are all vital to a region’s development agenda. This book presents a comprehensive exploration of the state of infrastructure in Africa and provides an integrated analysis of the challenges the sector faces, based on extensive fieldwork across the continent. Contributors with a wide range of expertise challenge current policy, practice and thinking on issues including the politics of infrastructure development, social inclusion, domestic resource mobilisation and infrastructure financing. The book will be an important resource for academic researchers, students and early career development professionals as well as policymakers and NGOs engaged in dialoguing the infrastructure development options for Africa.

✦ Table of Contents

INFRASTRUCTURE IN AFRICA
Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction: Infrastructure in African development
Background
What does the literature say about infrastructure and development?
The status of infrastructure in Africa and issues of transformation
Map of the book
Part 1: Spatial and demographic contexts
1. Infrastructure Development Index
Introduction
Why do we need an Infrastructure Development Index?
Methodology
Main results
Conclusion
Annex: Overviews of the African International Development Index
2. Rapid urbanization and the growing demand for urban infrastructure in Africa
Introduction
Africa’s principal infrastructure challenge
Infrastructure for more livable and productive cities
Elements for more productive and livable cities
Annex
3. Infrastructure for the growing middle class in Africa
Introduction
Access to improved infrastructure services
Investment requirements to provide access to the middle classes
Household spending on infrastructure services
Affordability conditions
Conclusions and recommendations
4. Infrastructure and rural productivity in Africa
Introduction
Challenges facing rural activities
Logistics costs as a result of rural infrastructure
Rural infrastructure in correlation with rural productivity
Conclusion: an agenda for rural infrastructure
Part 2: Sector-specific issues
5. Water and sanitation in Africa: current status, trends, challenges and opportunities
Introduction
Urbanization and access to water and sanitation services
Factors influencing water and sanitation needs over the next 50 years
Investment needs
Supply- and demand-side constraints
Conclusion
Annex
6. Africa’s prospects for infrastructure development and regional integration: energy sector
Introduction
Electricity: Africa’s current position
Gas: Africa’s current position
Liquid fuels
Energy infrastructure finance
Challenges
Opportunities for energy infrastructure
Conclusion
7. Africa’s prospects for infrastructure development and regional integration: transport sector
Introduction
Importance of transport infrastructure
A driver of regional integration
Financing transport infrastructure in Africa
Road sub-sector
Rail sub-sector
Ports sub-sector
Airport sub-sector
Conclusion and recommendations
Annex 1: Overview of African transport infrastructure stocks
Annex 2: International evidence of successful private sector participation in the ports sector
Annex 3: Influences on road quality
Annex 4: Role of inland water transport in Africa
8. Africa’s prospects for infrastructure development and regional integration: information and communications technology sector
Overview of the information and communications technology ecosystem in Africa
Current investment in the African broadband ecosystem
Investment requirement for the ICT ecosystem over the next three decades
Financing information and communications technology sector development
Implications for regional cooperation
Conclusion
Part 3: Regional issues
9. The state of infrastructure in East Africa
Introduction
Social infrastructure: access to water and sanitation, and electricity
Infrastructure to serve productive needs
Surface transportation
Information and communications technology
10. Integrated approaches for infrastructure
Introduction
Challenges facing the region
Infrastructure for more livable and productive cities
Benefits accruing to rural areas from urban and regional infrastructure
Regional integration: the way forward for infrastructure provision
Financing Africa’s infrastructure in a two-tier market
The role of the African Development Bank in infrastructure
Conclusion
Annex
11. Regional integration and infrastructure connectivity in Africa
Introduction
Gains from further regional integration
Regional integration agenda: a focus on energy, transport and telecommunication
Calibrating to respond to sub-regional specifics
Non-physical components of the agenda
Conclusion
Annex
Part 4: Financing issues
12. Infrastructure deficit and opportunities in Africa
Introduction
The state of infrastructure supply in Africa
Africa’s infrastructure financing requirements
Mobilizing financing for infrastructure in Africa
The role of the African Development Bank in infrastructure development
Conclusion
Annex
13. Comparative analysis of costs of some selected infrastructure components across Africa
Introduction
Methodology
Price Level Indices results
Conclusion
Annex
14. Infrastructure deficit and financing needs in Africa
Introduction
State of infrastructure access in Africa7
Constraints to infrastructure development
Financing infrastructure
Africa50 Fund for infrastructure
The role of the African Development Bank
15. Innovative financing for infrastructure: Africa50 Fund issues
Introduction
Theories of infrastructure and corporate finance
Debating infrastructure financing in African development
The Africa50 Fund: issues for consideration
Conclusion
Part 5: Concluding remarks
16. Infrastructure, political economy and Africa’s transformational agenda
Introduction
Political economy and status of Africa’s infrastructure
Rethinking infrastructure financing
Changing policies and values: capacity for maintenance and upgrade issues
The role of infrastructure in structural transformation of Africa
Looking beyond China: South–South technical cooperation in infrastructure development
Conclusion
Index