Burkina Faso's infrastructure :A continental perspective

Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia ; Dominguez-Torres, Carolina

关键词: ACCESSIBILITY;    ADOPTION OF ICT;    AIR;    AIR TRANSPORT;    AIRCRAFT;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-5818
RP-ID  :  WPS5818

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 1.3percentage points to Burkina Faso's annual per capitagross domestic product (GDP) growth over the past decade,much of it due to improvements in information andcommunication technology (ICT). Raising the country'sinfrastructure endowment to that of the region'smiddle-income countries (MICs) could boost annual growth bymore than 3 percentage points per capita. Burkina Faso hasmade significant progress developing its infrastructure inrecent years, especially in the ICT sector. The country hasalso moved forward in the areas of road maintenance andwater and sanitation, but still faces challenges in thesesectors, as well as in the electricity sector. As of 2007,Burkina Faso faced an annual infrastructure funding gap of$165 million per year, or 4 percent of GDP. That gap couldbe cut in half by the adoption of more appropriatetechnologies to meet infrastructure targets in the transportand the water and sanitation sectors. Even if Burkina Fasowere unable to increase infrastructure spending or otherwiseclose the infrastructure funding gap, simply by moving froma 10- to 18-year horizon the country could address itsefficiency gap and meet the posited infrastructure targets.