infrastructure development. Its small population of half a million people is spread across a nine-island archipelago. The islands … need complementary infrastructure in terms of roads, water, transport, ports, power, and ICT. Cape Verde already has well …-developed infrastructure networks. Road density is relatively high, and most of the national network is paved. Almost all islands have port and …

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) faces possibly the most daunting infrastructure challenge on the African … continent. Conflict has seriously damaged most infrastructure networks. Vast geography, low population density, extensive … infrastructure challenges is to reform the national power utility and increase power generation and delivery. Capacity must increase …

Policy recommendations for infrastructure provision usually build on a well-established understanding of best practice … ignored goes a long way toward explaining why infrastructure policies fail and why best practice can be counterproductive … consideration of how the different incentive problems in politics impede policy improvements in infrastructure. This paper addresses …