TY  - BOOK
AU  - Briceno-Garmendia,Cecilia
AU  - Briceno-Garmendia,Cecilia
AU  - Dominguez-Torres,Carolina
TI  - Burkina Faso's Infrastructure: A Continental Perspective 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The World Bank
KW  - Annual infrastructure funding gap
KW  - E-Business
KW  - Energy Production and Transportation
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 gross domestic product
KW  - Road maintenance
KW  - Town Water Supply and Sanitation
KW  - Transport Economics Policy & Planning
N2  - Infrastructure contributed 1.3 percentage points to Burkina Faso's annual per capita gross domestic product (GDP) growth over the past decade, much of it due to improvements in information and communication technology (ICT). Raising the country's infrastructure endowment to that of the region's middle-income countries (MICs) could boost annual growth by more than 3 percentage points per capita. Burkina Faso has made significant progress developing its infrastructure in recent years, especially in the ICT sector. The country has also moved forward in the areas of road maintenance and water and sanitation, but still faces challenges in these sectors, as well as in the electricity sector. As of 2007, Burkina Faso faced an annual infrastructure funding gap of
UR  - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-5818
ER  -