Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Executive summary -- Introduction -- Economic growth and structural change : the role of infrastructure -- The Hub concept, competitive export, and dynamic cities as drivers of high economic growth -- Infrastructure constraints and investment needs -- Financing...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been a remarkable success in Africa. In just 10 years-dating from the end of the 1990s-mobile network coverage rose from 16 percent to 90 percent of the urban population and by 2009 nearly half of Africa's rural population was also living...