Course summary (Africa Economic growth and infrastructures)
Africa's logistics and transport sector. Infrastructure has been a major driver of strong economic growth. GSM mobile phone Infrastructure has been a major driver of strong economic growth in Africa in
recent years. Better infrastructure could make an even greater contribution.
Africa’s transport sector requires some $18 billion in annual investment, almost
half for operations and maintenance.
Substantial investments in information and communications technology (ICT)
and related infrastructure will be made through 2015 to meet market demand for
telecommunications services in 24 countries of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Over the last few years, Africa has benefitted from some significant
improvements in infrastructure. Over 50 percent of Africa’s population lived in
range of a GSM mobile phone signal in 2006. Five African countries have already
met the millennium targets for universal water access and 12 others are on-track
to do so; and around 80 percent of Africa’s main road network is in good or fair
condition.
Example of the course Infrastructures and
telecommunications in Africa:
However, this is only part of the story; daunting challenges remain. Only one in
three rural Africans has access to an all-season road; more than 20 percent of the population in Cameroon, Ghana, Mauritania, Niger, and
Tanzania must travel
more than two kilometers to their primary water supply; African consumers pay
twice as much for basic services as people elsewhere in the world; and a monthly
basket of prepaid mobile telephone services costs $12 in Africa but only $2 in
South Asia. These are examples of Africa’s infrastructure challenges.
Access to energy is critical for economic growth and poverty alleviation; no
country in the world has developed its economy without abundant energy supplies.
Today, chronic power shortages plague 30 African countries and only one in four
Africans have access to electricity. The entire installed generation capacity of 48 Sub Saharan African countries is 68 gigawatts, no more than Spain’s. Firms in
many African countries indicate that the largest obstacle to doing business is
the power constraint. Outside of South Africa, power consumption is barely one
percent of the level in high income countries.
AFRICA
Scholarships Grants
Economic, growth, infrastructures, Africa, Africa's, logistics, transport, sector, Information, communication, technologies, infrastructure, driver, strong, economic growth, Master, international business
EENI International Business
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