Botswana's Infrastructure : A Continental Perspective

Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia ; Pushak, Nataliya

关键词: ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY;    ACCESSIBILITY;    AIR;    AIR PASSENGER;    AIR TRANSPORT;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-5887
RP-ID  :  WPS5887

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 made a net contributionof just over two percentage points to Botswana'simproved per capita growth performance in recent years.Raising the country s infrastructure endowment to that ofthe region's middle-income countries could boost annualgrowth by about 1.2 percentage points. Botswana has madesignificant infrastructure progress in recent years,spanning the transport, water and sanitation, power, andmobile telephony sectors. But the country still faces anumber of important infrastructure challenges. The mostpressing is in the power sector, where the country iseconomically and financially exposed to a lack of generationcapacity and insufficient power supply, leaving the economyvulnerable to power price shocks and load shedding.Botswana's international transport connections andInternet connectivity also lag behind those of comparablecountries. Botswana's overall resource envelope of $800million per year surpasses its $785 million needs estimate.Nevertheless, it loses $68 million a year to inefficienciesand faces a funding gap of $305 million per year, entirelyin the power sector, traceable to the quality of spendingdecisions. Botswana will be in a good position to meet itsinfrastructure goals if it can reduce inefficiencies,increase public-sector receipts, and attract more public funding.