"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 …

Infrastructure contributed 1.8 percentage points to Côte d'Ivoire's annual per capita GDP growth over the mid-2000s … before conflict began to erase the country's infrastructure and its growth contributions. Raising the country …'s infrastructure endowment to the level of the region's middle-income countries could boost the growth rate by a further 2 percentage …

Infrastructure contributed 0.6 percentage points to Ethiopia's annual per capita GDP growth over the last decade …. Raising the country's infrastructure endowment to that of the region's middle-income countries could add an additional 3 … percentage points to infrastructure's contribution to growth. Ethiopia's infrastructure successes include developing Ethiopia …

Infrastructure improvements contributed 0.6 percentage points to Zambia's annual per capital GDP growth over the past … the growth rate down by more than 0.1 percentage points. Improving Zambia's infrastructure endowment could boost growth by … every other aspect of infrastructure, rural Zambians lag well behind their African peers. In a country where 70 percent of …

Infrastructure contributed just over one percentage point to Ghana's annual per capital GDP growth during the 2000s …. Raising the country's infrastructure endowment to that of the region's middle-income countries could boost the annual growth … rate by more than 2.7 percentage points. Ghana has an advanced infrastructure platform when compared with other low …

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 …

Infrastructure made a net contribution of around one percentage point to Nigeria's improved per capita growth …'s infrastructure endowment to that of the region's middle-income countries could boost annual growth by around 4 percentage points … lack of maintenance, and the country has a poor record on air transport safety. Addressing Nigeria's infrastructure …