Infrastructure in Africa : Lessons for Future Development

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, providing an important resource for researchers, students, policymakers and NGOs. This book presents a comprehensive account and analysis of the current state of infrastructure in Africa with an unprecedented level of detail. Covering nearly twenty specific topical issues for the ongoing development of African infrastructure-including the economic and political aspects of infrastructure development, financing and the mobilization of domestic resources, and the potential for social inclusion-the volume explicitly challenges current policy, practice, and thinking in this area.