Angola's Infrastructure : A Continental Perspective

Infrastructure made a net contribution of around 1 percentage point to Angola's improved per capita growth performance in recent years, despite unreliable power supplies and poor roads, which each holding back growth by 0.2 percentage points. Raising the country's infrastructure endowment to that of the region's middle-income countries (MICs) could boost Angola's annual growth by about 2.9 percentage points. As a resource-rich, postconflict country, Angola has shown an exceptionally strong commitment to financing the reconstruction and expansion of its infrastructure. It has recently expanded its generation capacity, embarked on an ambitious multibillion-dollar road rehabilitation program, begun to make investments aimed at easing congestion at the Port of Luanda, and embarked upon an ambitious rehabilitation program for urban water systems. Numerous challenges remain, however. Angola needs to upgrade its electricity transmission and distribution infrastructure, expand its urban water-supply system, improve efficiency at the Port of Luanda, and make policy and regulatory adjustments across the board. Angola presently spends around $4.3 billion per year on infrastructure, with $1.3 billion lost to inefficiencies. After taking sectoral allocations and inefficiencies into account, a modest funding gap of $115 million per year remains, which could be largely eliminated by focusing on lower-cost water and sanitation options. Angola's infrastructure needs are manageable relative to its fast-growing economy, as long as the country can address inefficiencies.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Pushak, Nataliya, Foster, Vivien
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	2011-09-01
Subjects:	ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY, ACCESS TO WATER SUPPLY, ACCESSIBILITY, AGRICULTURE, AIR, AIR TRANSPORT, AIR TRANSPORT SECTOR, AIRCRAFT, AIRPORTS, AVAILABILITY, AVERAGE TARIFFS, BALANCE, BANDWIDTH, BENCHMARK, BENCHMARKING, BENCHMARKS, BILL COLLECTION, BORDER CROSSING, BROADBAND INFRASTRUCTURE, BULK CARGO, BULK SUPPLY, BULK TARIFF, CABLE, CABLE SYSTEM, CAPITAL EXPENDITURE, CAPITAL INVESTMENT, CAPITAL INVESTMENTS, CARGO, CARRIERS, CHLORINE, COLLECTION PERFORMANCE, CONGESTION, CONGESTION PROBLEMS, CONTAINER PORT, CONTAINER TERMINAL, CONTAINER TRAFFIC, COST OF ENERGY, COST OF POWER, COST OF WATER, COST RECOVERY, COSTS OF POWER, CUBIC METER, CUBIC METER OF WATER, DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE, DEVELOPMENT POLICY, DIESEL, DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER, DISTRIBUTION LOSSES, DRAINAGE, DRIVERS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE, ELECTRIC SYSTEMS, ELECTRICITY, ELECTRIFICATION, END USERS, ENERGY COSTS, EXPANSION OF GENERATION CAPACITY, FARES, FAULTY BILLING, FEEDER ROADS, FINANCIAL BURDEN, FINANCIAL EQUILIBRIUM, FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE, FREIGHT, FUEL, FUEL PRICES, FUEL SUBSIDIES, GAS, GASOLINE, GDP, GENERATING CAPACITY, GENERATION, GENERATION ASSETS, GENERATION CAPACITY, GENERATORS, GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT, GROWTH RATE, GROWTH RATES, HEAVY RELIANCE, HIGH ENERGY, HOUSEHOLD BUDGETS, HOUSEHOLDS, HYDROPOWER, INCOME, INEFFICIENCY, INFRASTRUCTURE ASSETS, INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT, INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING, INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT, INFRASTRUCTURE PROVISION, INFRASTRUCTURE SPENDING, INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT, INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION, INTERNATIONAL AVIATION, INTERNATIONAL TRADE, INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC, INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL, INVESTMENT CLIMATE, INVESTMENT PROGRAM, INVESTMENT TARGETS, INVESTMENTS IN POWER, JOURNEY, KILOWATT-HOUR, LEVEL OF COMPETITION, LITERS PER CAPITA PER DAY, LOCOMOTIVE, LONG-DISTANCE, LONG-DISTANCE ROAD, LOW TARIFFS, LOWER PRICES,
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