Africa: Economic Growth and Infrastructures

The Subject “Infrastructures in Africa. Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa” belongs to the following Online Programs taught by EENI Global Business School:

Courses: Transport in Africa, African Economic Integration.

Masters: Business in Africa, Transport in Africa, International Business, Foreign Trade.

Doctorate: African Business, Global Logistics, World Trade.

Languages: or Infrastructures en Afrique Infraestruturas na África Infraestructuras en África.

Infrastructures in Africa. Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa.

Infrastructure has been a significant driver of the strong economic growth in the African economies in the last years. The international transport sector in Africa requires 18 billion dollars in annual investment, 50% for operations and maintenance.

1. The largest countries that are financing infrastructures in Africa are China (13.4 billion dollars), Brazil, India, and South Korea;
2. The most attractive African Countries for investment in infrastructures are South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Botswana, Uganda, Angola, Namibia, and Zambia;
3. Substantial investments in information and communications technology and infrastructures will be made to meet the market demand for the telecommunications services in twenty-four countries of Sub-Saharan Africa;
4. Africa has benefited from some significant optimizations in infrastructure;
5. 50% of the African population lives in range of a GSM mobile phone signal;
6. Five African Countries have already met the UN Millennium Goals for universal water access, and twelve others are on-track to do so, 80% of the African main road network is in good or fair condition;
7. Only 33% of rural Africans has access to an all-season Roads, 20% of the population in Cameroon, Ghana, Mauritania, Niger, and Tanzania must travel 2 kilometers to their main water supply;
8. African Consumers should pay double as much for basic services as people elsewhere in the World, a monthly basket of prepaid mobile telephone services costs 12 USD in Africa but only 2 USD in South Asia;
9. The chronic power shortages plague thirty African Countries, only 25% of Africans have access to electricity. The entire installed generation capacity of forty-eight Sub-Saharan African Countries is 68 gigawatts;
10. The companies in many African Countries indicate that the biggest Technical Barriers to do business is the power constraint. Outside of South Africa, power consumption is barely 1% of the level in high-income countries.

The four pillar of the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) are:

1. Energy;
2. Transport;
3. Information and Communication Technologies;
4. Transboundary Water Resources.

The Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) is executed by the African Development Bank, and lead by the African Union and African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD).

Trans-African corridors:

1. Trans-African Road Network;
2. Lobito;
3. Northern Corridor;
4. Algiers-Lagos;
5. Cairo-Dakar;
6. Asia-Africa Corridor.

Rail Transport in Africa.

EENI African Business Portal.

Economic Area of the African Civilization.

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