Ghana's Infrastructure : A Continental Perspective

World Bank

Washington, DC

关键词: ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY;    ACCESSIBILITY;    ADVANCED INFRASTRUCTURE;    AIR;    AIR SAFETY;   

RP-ID  :  62388

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Infrastructure contributed just over onepercentage point to Ghana's improved per capita growthperformance during the 2000s, though unreliable powersupplies held growth back by 0.5 percentage points. Raisingthe country's infrastructure endowment to that of theregion's middle-income countries could boost annualgrowth by more than 2.7 percentage points. Today, Ghana hasa very advanced infrastructure platform when compared withother low-income countries in Africa. But as the countryapproaches the middle-income threshold, it will need tofocus on upgrading its infrastructure indicators in linewith this benchmark. The Africa Infrastructure CountryDiagnostic (AICD) has gathered and analyzed extensive dataon infrastructure in more than 40 Sub-Saharan countries,including Ghana. The results have been presented in reportscovering different areas of infrastructure, including ICT,irrigation, power, transport, water, and sanitation, anddifferent policy areas, including investment needs, fiscalcosts, and sector performance. This report presents the keyAICD findings for Ghana and allows the country'sinfrastructure situation to be benchmarked against itsAfrican peers. Given that Ghana is a relatively well-offlow-income country well on its way to reaching middle-incomestatus, two sets of African benchmarks will be used toevaluate Ghana's situation. Detailed comparisons willalso be made with immediate regional neighbors in theEconomic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). As onthe rest of the continent, West Africa's growthperformance improved markedly in the 2000s. The overallimprovement in per capita growth rates has been estimated ataround 2 percent, of which 1.1 percent is attributable tobetter structural policies and 0.9 percent to improvedinfrastructure. During the five years from 2003 to 2007,Ghana's economy grew at an average annual rate of 5.6percent, which accelerated to 7.3 percent in 2009.Ghana's infrastructure improvements added just over onepercentage point to the per capita growth rate for theperiod 2003 to 2007.