Title:	Transport Prices and Costs in Africa
Authors:	Supee, Teravaninthorn Gaël Raballand
Keywords:	Transportation—Africa—Costs.
Issue Date:	2009
Publisher:	World Bank
Description:	One of the few things that African policy makers, development partners, civil society, and policy researchers agree on is that Africa has a serious infrastructure deficit. Only 25 percent of Africans have access to electri - city. Less than 7 percent of arable land is irrigated. Two out of every three Africans lack access to sanitation. Only 65 percent have access to an improved water source. Perhaps the most compelling problem is that of road infrastructure. There are fewer kilometers of roads in Africa today than there were 30 years ago. Some 70 percent of Africa’s rural population lives more than 2 km from an all-season road. And the cost of transporting goods in Africa is the highest in the world. Not only have high transport costs raised the cost of doing business, impeding private investment, but they serve as an additional barrier to African countries’ benefiting from the rapid growth in world trade. Especially for Africa’s many landlocked countries, high transport costs mean that, even if they liberalize their trade regimes, they will remain effectively landlocked.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/6887
ISBN:	978-0-8213-7655-3
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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