The paper provides a first systematic, comprehensive benchmarking of South Africa's infrastructure performance in four major sectors--electricity, water and sanitation, information and communication technology, and transportation--against the relevant group of comparator countries using a new World Bank international data base with objective and perception-based indicators of infrastructure performance from over 200 countries. Specifically, the paper seeks to answer a number of relevant questions: How does South Africa compare on major indicators of infrastructure sector performance against the relevant country groups? What do outcome indicators tell us about the relative strengths and weaknesses of South Africa's infrastructure compared with various income and geographical comparator groups of countries? Where are the largest deviations-positive and negative-from the benchmarks and other comparators? And how does one interpret some of these comparisons to be useful for policy purposes?
Bibliographic Details
| Main Authors: |
Bogetić, Željko,
Fedderke, Johannes W. |
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper
biblioteca
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| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
World Bank, Washington, DC
2006-02
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| Subjects: | BENCHMARK,
BENCHMARKS,
CELLULAR SERVICE,
COMPETITIVENESS,
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS,
DRINKING WATER,
ECONOMIC GROWTH,
ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE,
ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE,
ELECTRIC POWER,
ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION,
ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION,
ELECTRICITY SECTOR,
ELECTRICITY SERVICE,
ENERGY SECTOR,
FIXED COSTS,
GDP,
HIGH INCOME,
HIGH INCOME COUNTRIES,
HUMAN CAPITAL,
INCOME,
INCOME GROUP,
INCOME GROUPS,
INCOME LEVEL,
INFRASTRUCTURE PERFORMANCE,
INFRASTRUCTURE SECTORS,
INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES,
INTERNATIONAL BENCHMARKING,
LOW INCOME,
LOW INCOME COUNTRIES,
MIDDLE EAST,
MIDDLE INCOME,
MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES,
MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY,
NORTH AFRICA,
OUTCOME INDICATORS,
PER CAPITA INCOME,
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS,
POVERTY RATES,
POVERTY REDUCTION,
POVERTY REDUCTION TARGETS,
RAIL NETWORK,
RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS,
ROADS,
SANITATION,
SANITATION SERVICES,
SELECTION BIAS,
SERVICE DELIVERY,
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA,
TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY,
TELECOMMUNICATIONS,
TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT,
TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTORS,
TELEPHONE SERVICES,
TOTAL OUTPUT,
TRANSPORT SECTOR,
TRANSPORT SERVICES,
TRANSPORTATION,
UTILITIES,
WATER SERVICE, |
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/02/6553756/international-benchmarking-south-africas-infrastructure-performance
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8768
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