TY  - BOOK
AU  - Torres,Clemencia
AU  - Briceno-Garmendia,Cecilia M.
AU  - Dominguez,Carolina
AU  - Torres,Clemencia
TI  - Senegal's Infrastructure: A Continental Perspective 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The World Bank
KW  - E-Business
KW  - Electricity infrastructure
KW  - Information and communication technology
KW  - Infrastructure Economics
KW  - Infrastructure Economics and Finance
KW  - Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
KW  - Middle-income countries
KW  - Per capita growth performance
KW  - Public Sector Economics
KW  - Roads & Highways
KW  - Transport Economics Policy & Planning
KW  - Water and sanitation network
N2  - Infrastructure contributed 1 percentage point to Senegal's improved per capita growth performance between 2000 and 2005, placing it in the middle of the distribution among West African countries. Raising the country's infrastructure endowment to that of the region's middle-income countries (MICs) could boost annual growth by about 2.7 percentage points. Senegal has made significant progress in some areas of its infrastructure, including the transport, electricity, water, and information-and-communication-technology (ICT) sectors. But looking ahead, the country faces important infrastructure challenges, including improving road conditions, boosting air and rail traffic, updating electricity infrastructure, and boosting the pace of expansion of the water-and-sanitation network. Senegal currently spends around
UR  - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-5817
ER  -