Africa's infrastructure [[electronic resource] ] : a time for transformation / / Vivien Foster and Cecilia Briceño-Garmendia, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC, : Agence Française de Développement, : World Bank, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (386 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.6096 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
FosterVivien <1968->
Briceño-GarmendiaCecilia |
Collana | Africa development forum |
Soggetto topico | Infrastructure (Economics) - Africa |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-45072-7
9786612450723 0-8213-8083-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Africa's infrastructure : a time for transformation -- The Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic -- Meeting Africa's infrastructure needs -- Closing Africa's funding gap -- Dealing with poverty and inequality -- Building sound institutions -- Facilitating urbanization -- Deepening regional integration -- Information and communication technologies : a boost for growth -- Power : catching up -- Transport : more than the sum of its parts -- Roads : broadening the agenda -- Railways : looking for traffic -- Ports and shipping : landlords needed -- Airports and air transport : the sky's the limit -- Water resources : a common interest -- Irrigation : tapping potential -- Water supply : hitting the target? -- Sanitation : moving up the ladder. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458191703321 |
Washington, DC, : Agence Française de Développement, : World Bank, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Africa's infrastructure : : a time for transformation / / Vivien Foster and Cecilia Briceno-Garmendia, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC : , : Agence Francaise de Developpement : , : World Bank, , [2010] |
Descrizione fisica | xxii, 355 pages : illustrations, maps ; ; 26 cm |
Disciplina | 363.6096 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
FosterVivien <1968->
Briceño-GarmendiaCecilia |
Collana | Africa development forum |
Soggetto topico | Infrastructure (Economics) - Africa |
ISBN |
1-282-45072-7
9786612450723 0-8213-8083-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Africa's infrastructure : a time for transformation -- The Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic -- Meeting Africa's infrastructure needs -- Closing Africa's funding gap -- Dealing with poverty and inequality -- Building sound institutions -- Facilitating urbanization -- Deepening regional integration -- Information and communication technologies : a boost for growth -- Power : catching up -- Transport : more than the sum of its parts -- Roads : broadening the agenda -- Railways : looking for traffic -- Ports and shipping : landlords needed -- Airports and air transport : the sky's the limit -- Water resources : a common interest -- Irrigation : tapping potential -- Water supply : hitting the target? -- Sanitation : moving up the ladder. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791133103321 |
Washington, DC : , : Agence Francaise de Developpement : , : World Bank, , [2010] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Africa's infrastructure : : a time for transformation / / Vivien Foster and Cecilia Briceno-Garmendia, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC : , : Agence Francaise de Developpement : , : World Bank, , [2010] |
Descrizione fisica | xxii, 355 pages : illustrations, maps ; ; 26 cm |
Disciplina | 363.6096 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
FosterVivien <1968->
Briceño-GarmendiaCecilia |
Collana | Africa development forum |
Soggetto topico | Infrastructure (Economics) - Africa |
ISBN |
1-282-45072-7
9786612450723 0-8213-8083-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Africa's infrastructure : a time for transformation -- The Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic -- Meeting Africa's infrastructure needs -- Closing Africa's funding gap -- Dealing with poverty and inequality -- Building sound institutions -- Facilitating urbanization -- Deepening regional integration -- Information and communication technologies : a boost for growth -- Power : catching up -- Transport : more than the sum of its parts -- Roads : broadening the agenda -- Railways : looking for traffic -- Ports and shipping : landlords needed -- Airports and air transport : the sky's the limit -- Water resources : a common interest -- Irrigation : tapping potential -- Water supply : hitting the target? -- Sanitation : moving up the ladder. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826039003321 |
Washington, DC : , : Agence Francaise de Developpement : , : World Bank, , [2010] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Africa's management in the 1990s and beyond : reconciling indigenous and transplanted institutions / Mamadou Dia |
Autore | DIA, Mamadou |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, : World Bank, c1996 |
Descrizione fisica | xii,293 p., [1] c. geogr. ; 23 cm |
Disciplina |
338.967(SVILUPPO ECONOMICO DELL'AFRICA SUBSAHARIANA)
351.000967(AFRICA SUBSAHARIANA - Amministrazione pubblica) |
Soggetto topico |
AFRICA SUBSAHARIANA - Economia politica
AFRICA SUBSAHARIANA - Amministrazione pubblica |
ISBN | 08-213-3431-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNIOR-UON00079756 |
DIA, Mamadou | ||
Washington, : World Bank, c1996 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. L'Orientale | ||
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Africa's power infrastructure [[electronic resource] ] : investment, integration, efficiency / / Anton Eberhard ... [et al.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C, : World Bank, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.793/20967 |
Altri autori (Persone) | EberhardAnton A |
Collana | Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Infrastructure |
Soggetto topico |
Rural electrification - Government policy - Africa, Sub-Saharan
Energy policy - Social aspects - Africa, Sub-Saharan Capital investments - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-10004-5
9786613100047 0-8213-8652-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Africa unplugged -- The region's underdeveloped energy resources -- The lag in installed generation capacity -- Stagnant and inequitable access to electricity services -- Unreliable electricity supply -- The prevalence of back-up generators -- Increasing use of leased emergency power -- A power crisis exacerbated by drought, conflict, and high oil prices -- High power costs that generally do not cover costs -- Deficient power infrastructure constrains social and economic development -- The promise of regional power trade -- Uneven distribution and poor economies of scale -- Despite power pools, low regional power trade -- The potential benefits of expanded regional power trading -- What regional patterns of trade would emerge? -- Water resources management and hydropower development -- Who gains most from power trade? -- How will less hydropower development influence trade flows? -- What are the environmental impacts of trading power? -- Technology choices and the clean development mechanism -- How might climate change affect power investment patterns? -- Meeting the challenges of regional integration of infrastructure -- Building a political consensus -- Strengthening regional institutions -- Setting priorities for regional infrastructure -- Facilitating project preparation and cross-border finance -- Developing regional regulatory frameworks -- Investment requirements -- Modeling investment needs -- Estimating supply needs -- Overall cost requirements -- The sapp -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 35 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- The EAPP/Nile Basin -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 35 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- WAPP -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target rate : electricity access of 54 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- CAPP -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 44 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- Strengthening sector reform and planning -- Power sector reform in sub-Saharan Africa -- Private management contracts : winning the battle, losing the war -- Sector reform, sector performance -- The search for effective hybrid markets -- Regulatory institutions may need to be redesigned -- The challenges of independent regulation -- Regulation by contract -- Outsourcing regulatory functions -- Toward better regulatory systems -- A model to fit the context -- Widening connectivity and reducing inequality -- Low electricity connection rates -- Mixed progress, despite many agencies and funds -- Inequitable access to electricity -- Affordability of electricity : subsidizing the well off -- Policy challenges for accelerating service expansion -- Don't forget the demand side of the equation -- Take a hard-headed look at affordability -- Target subsidies to promote service expansion -- Systematic planning needed for periurban and rural electrification -- Recommitting to the reform of state-owned enterprises -- Hidden costs in underperforming state-owned enterprises -- Driving down operational inefficiencies and hidden costs -- Effect of better governance on performance of state-owned utilities -- Making state-owned enterprises more effective -- Defined roles and responsibilities -- Altering the political economy around the utility -- Practical tools for improving the performance of state-owned utilities -- Closing Africa's power funding gap -- Existing spending in the power sector -- How much more can be done within the existing resource envelope? -- Increasing cost recovery -- On budget spending : raising capital budget execution -- Improving utility performance -- Savings from efficiency-oriented reforms -- Annual funding gap -- How much additional finance can be raised? -- Little scope for raising more domestic finance -- Official development assistance : sustaining the scale-up -- Non-OECD financiers will growth continue? -- Private investors : over the hill -- Local capital markets : a possibility in the medium term -- Bank lending -- Equity -- Corporate bonds -- The most promising ways to increase funds -- What else can be done? -- Taking more time -- Lowering costs through regional integration -- The way forward. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456668703321 |
Washington, D.C, : World Bank, c2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Africa's power infrastructure : : investment, integration, efficiency / / Anton Eberhard ... [and others] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C : , : World Bank, , [2011] |
Descrizione fisica | xxix, 317 pages : illustrations ; ; 23 cm |
Disciplina | 333.793/20967 |
Altri autori (Persone) | EberhardAnton A |
Collana | Directions in development. Infrastructure |
Soggetto topico |
Rural electrification - Government policy - Africa, Sub-Saharan
Energy policy - Social aspects - Africa, Sub-Saharan Capital investments - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
ISBN |
1-283-10004-5
9786613100047 0-8213-8652-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Africa unplugged -- The region's underdeveloped energy resources -- The lag in installed generation capacity -- Stagnant and inequitable access to electricity services -- Unreliable electricity supply -- The prevalence of back-up generators -- Increasing use of leased emergency power -- A power crisis exacerbated by drought, conflict, and high oil prices -- High power costs that generally do not cover costs -- Deficient power infrastructure constrains social and economic development -- The promise of regional power trade -- Uneven distribution and poor economies of scale -- Despite power pools, low regional power trade -- The potential benefits of expanded regional power trading -- What regional patterns of trade would emerge? -- Water resources management and hydropower development -- Who gains most from power trade? -- How will less hydropower development influence trade flows? -- What are the environmental impacts of trading power? -- Technology choices and the clean development mechanism -- How might climate change affect power investment patterns? -- Meeting the challenges of regional integration of infrastructure -- Building a political consensus -- Strengthening regional institutions -- Setting priorities for regional infrastructure -- Facilitating project preparation and cross-border finance -- Developing regional regulatory frameworks -- Investment requirements -- Modeling investment needs -- Estimating supply needs -- Overall cost requirements -- The sapp -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 35 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- The EAPP/Nile Basin -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 35 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- WAPP -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target rate : electricity access of 54 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- CAPP -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 44 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- Strengthening sector reform and planning -- Power sector reform in sub-Saharan Africa -- Private management contracts : winning the battle, losing the war -- Sector reform, sector performance -- The search for effective hybrid markets -- Regulatory institutions may need to be redesigned -- The challenges of independent regulation -- Regulation by contract -- Outsourcing regulatory functions -- Toward better regulatory systems -- A model to fit the context -- Widening connectivity and reducing inequality -- Low electricity connection rates -- Mixed progress, despite many agencies and funds -- Inequitable access to electricity -- Affordability of electricity : subsidizing the well off -- Policy challenges for accelerating service expansion -- Don't forget the demand side of the equation -- Take a hard-headed look at affordability -- Target subsidies to promote service expansion -- Systematic planning needed for periurban and rural electrification -- Recommitting to the reform of state-owned enterprises -- Hidden costs in underperforming state-owned enterprises -- Driving down operational inefficiencies and hidden costs -- Effect of better governance on performance of state-owned utilities -- Making state-owned enterprises more effective -- Defined roles and responsibilities -- Altering the political economy around the utility -- Practical tools for improving the performance of state-owned utilities -- Closing Africa's power funding gap -- Existing spending in the power sector -- How much more can be done within the existing resource envelope? -- Increasing cost recovery -- On budget spending : raising capital budget execution -- Improving utility performance -- Savings from efficiency-oriented reforms -- Annual funding gap -- How much additional finance can be raised? -- Little scope for raising more domestic finance -- Official development assistance : sustaining the scale-up -- Non-OECD financiers will growth continue? -- Private investors : over the hill -- Local capital markets : a possibility in the medium term -- Bank lending -- Equity -- Corporate bonds -- The most promising ways to increase funds -- What else can be done? -- Taking more time -- Lowering costs through regional integration -- The way forward. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781344303321 |
Washington, D.C : , : World Bank, , [2011] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Africa's power infrastructure : : investment, integration, efficiency / / Anton Eberhard ... [and others] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C : , : World Bank, , [2011] |
Descrizione fisica | xxix, 317 pages : illustrations ; ; 23 cm |
Disciplina | 333.793/20967 |
Altri autori (Persone) | EberhardAnton A |
Collana | Directions in development. Infrastructure |
Soggetto topico |
Rural electrification - Government policy - Africa, Sub-Saharan
Energy policy - Social aspects - Africa, Sub-Saharan Capital investments - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
ISBN |
1-283-10004-5
9786613100047 0-8213-8652-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Africa unplugged -- The region's underdeveloped energy resources -- The lag in installed generation capacity -- Stagnant and inequitable access to electricity services -- Unreliable electricity supply -- The prevalence of back-up generators -- Increasing use of leased emergency power -- A power crisis exacerbated by drought, conflict, and high oil prices -- High power costs that generally do not cover costs -- Deficient power infrastructure constrains social and economic development -- The promise of regional power trade -- Uneven distribution and poor economies of scale -- Despite power pools, low regional power trade -- The potential benefits of expanded regional power trading -- What regional patterns of trade would emerge? -- Water resources management and hydropower development -- Who gains most from power trade? -- How will less hydropower development influence trade flows? -- What are the environmental impacts of trading power? -- Technology choices and the clean development mechanism -- How might climate change affect power investment patterns? -- Meeting the challenges of regional integration of infrastructure -- Building a political consensus -- Strengthening regional institutions -- Setting priorities for regional infrastructure -- Facilitating project preparation and cross-border finance -- Developing regional regulatory frameworks -- Investment requirements -- Modeling investment needs -- Estimating supply needs -- Overall cost requirements -- The sapp -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 35 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- The EAPP/Nile Basin -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 35 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- WAPP -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target rate : electricity access of 54 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- CAPP -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 44 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- Strengthening sector reform and planning -- Power sector reform in sub-Saharan Africa -- Private management contracts : winning the battle, losing the war -- Sector reform, sector performance -- The search for effective hybrid markets -- Regulatory institutions may need to be redesigned -- The challenges of independent regulation -- Regulation by contract -- Outsourcing regulatory functions -- Toward better regulatory systems -- A model to fit the context -- Widening connectivity and reducing inequality -- Low electricity connection rates -- Mixed progress, despite many agencies and funds -- Inequitable access to electricity -- Affordability of electricity : subsidizing the well off -- Policy challenges for accelerating service expansion -- Don't forget the demand side of the equation -- Take a hard-headed look at affordability -- Target subsidies to promote service expansion -- Systematic planning needed for periurban and rural electrification -- Recommitting to the reform of state-owned enterprises -- Hidden costs in underperforming state-owned enterprises -- Driving down operational inefficiencies and hidden costs -- Effect of better governance on performance of state-owned utilities -- Making state-owned enterprises more effective -- Defined roles and responsibilities -- Altering the political economy around the utility -- Practical tools for improving the performance of state-owned utilities -- Closing Africa's power funding gap -- Existing spending in the power sector -- How much more can be done within the existing resource envelope? -- Increasing cost recovery -- On budget spending : raising capital budget execution -- Improving utility performance -- Savings from efficiency-oriented reforms -- Annual funding gap -- How much additional finance can be raised? -- Little scope for raising more domestic finance -- Official development assistance : sustaining the scale-up -- Non-OECD financiers will growth continue? -- Private investors : over the hill -- Local capital markets : a possibility in the medium term -- Bank lending -- Equity -- Corporate bonds -- The most promising ways to increase funds -- What else can be done? -- Taking more time -- Lowering costs through regional integration -- The way forward. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910806930503321 |
Washington, D.C : , : World Bank, , [2011] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Africa's silk road [[electronic resource] ] : China and India's new economic frontier / / Harry G. Broadman, with contributions from Gozde Isik ... [et al.] |
Autore | Broadman Harry G |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC, : World Bank, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (422 p.) |
Disciplina | 382.096051 |
Altri autori (Persone) | IsikGozde |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-62197-4
9786610621972 0-8213-6836-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Overview; Figures; Tables; 1 Connecting Two Continents; 2 Performance and Patterns of African-Asian Trade and Investment Flows; Boxes; 3 Challenges "At the Border": Africa and Asia's Trade and Investment Policies; 4 "Behind-the-Border" Constraints on African-Asian Trade and Investment Flows; 5 "Between-the-Border" Factors in African-Asian Trade and Investment; 6 Investment-Trade Linkages in African-Asian Commerce: Scale, Integration, and Production Networks; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452149603321 |
Broadman Harry G | ||
Washington, DC, : World Bank, c2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Africa's silk road : : China and India's new economic frontier / / Harry G. Broadman, with contributions from Gozde Isik ... [and others] |
Autore | Broadman Harry G |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC : , : World Bank, , [2007] |
Descrizione fisica | xxvi, 391 pages : illustrations, maps ; ; 23 cm |
Disciplina | 382.096051 |
Altri autori (Persone) | IsikGozde |
ISBN |
1-280-62197-4
9786610621972 0-8213-6836-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Overview; Figures; Tables; 1 Connecting Two Continents; 2 Performance and Patterns of African-Asian Trade and Investment Flows; Boxes; 3 Challenges "At the Border": Africa and Asia's Trade and Investment Policies; 4 "Behind-the-Border" Constraints on African-Asian Trade and Investment Flows; 5 "Between-the-Border" Factors in African-Asian Trade and Investment; 6 Investment-Trade Linkages in African-Asian Commerce: Scale, Integration, and Production Networks; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777898903321 |
Broadman Harry G | ||
Washington, DC : , : World Bank, , [2007] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Africa's silk road : China and India's new economic frontier / / Harry G. Broadman, with contributions from Gozde Isik ... [et al.] |
Autore | Broadman Harry G |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC, : World Bank, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | xxvi, 391 pages : illustrations, maps ; ; 23 cm |
Disciplina | 382.096051 |
Altri autori (Persone) | IsikGozde |
ISBN |
1-280-62197-4
9786610621972 0-8213-6836-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Overview; Figures; Tables; 1 Connecting Two Continents; 2 Performance and Patterns of African-Asian Trade and Investment Flows; Boxes; 3 Challenges "At the Border": Africa and Asia's Trade and Investment Policies; 4 "Behind-the-Border" Constraints on African-Asian Trade and Investment Flows; 5 "Between-the-Border" Factors in African-Asian Trade and Investment; 6 Investment-Trade Linkages in African-Asian Commerce: Scale, Integration, and Production Networks; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828266703321 |
Broadman Harry G | ||
Washington, DC, : World Bank, c2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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