TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dominguez-Torres,Carolina
AU  - Dominguez-Torres,Carolina
TI  - The Central African Republic's Infrastructure: A Continental Perspective 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The World Bank
KW  - Culture & Development
KW  - E-Business
KW  - Energy Production and Transportation
KW  - GDP Growth
KW  - Information and Communications Technology
KW  - Infrastructural Challenge
KW  - Infrastructure Economics
KW  - Infrastructure Economics and Finance
KW  - Infrastructure Funding Gap
KW  - Sustained Expenditure
KW  - Town Water Supply and Sanitation
KW  - Transport Economics Policy & Planning
N2  - Between 2000 and 2005, infrastructure contributed less than 1 percentage point to the Central African Republic's annual per capita GDP growth, despite substantial spending in the road sector. Raising the country's infrastructure endowment to that of the region's middle-income countries could boost annual growth by about 3.5 percentage points. The CAR has made significant progress in the transport, water, power, and information and communications technology (ICT) sectors. But the high cost of fuel, which raises transportation and energy costs, has been a vexing issue across all infrastructure sectors. The CAR's most pressing infrastructural challenge lies in the transport sector, which relies heavily on neighboring countries and could benefit from improved road conditions and enhanced performance at the port of Douala in Cameroon. In the power sector, the country suffers from a deteriorating infrastructure stock that it can no longer afford to maintain, and an inefficient and unreliable power supply. Additional challenges include a need for improved infrastructure in the water and sanitation and ICT sectors. Addressing the CAR's infrastructure challenges will require sustained expenditure of
UR  - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-5697
ER  -