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Summary of Financing African Infrastructure

Jeffrey Gutman, Amadou Sy and Soumya Chattopadhyay

Brookings Institution, 2015 8 Overall


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In 2009, the World Bank, international institutions and global donors called for massive infrastructure investments in Sub-Saharan Africa. The world listened, and support flooded in. This Brookings Institution report offers a comprehensive, instructive and well-annotated analysis of the origin and distribution of these investments by sector across the region. More important, the study focuses on a set of critical recommendations that brings the need for greater oversight and better planning and governance into sharper focus. getAbstract believes investors, bankers, policy makers, nongovernmental organization leaders, and development and multilateral donor groups will appreciate this timely work.



Jeffrey Gutman is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where Amadou Sy is director of the Africa Growth Initiative and Soumya Chattopadhyay is a senior research associate.


While international infrastructure investment into Sub-Saharan Africa has grown by 200% from 2004 to 2012, a chronic “infrastructure gap” of $93 billion per year presents a barrier to growth and to relieving persistent poverty. External financing originates from three main sources: 1) “private participation...

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