Overview
Despite Zambia's strong economic growth, infrastructure contribution has been relatively low. Raising Zambia's infrastructure to the level of the African regional leader - Mauritius- can add as much as 2.2 points to the per capita growth rate.
Main Findings
Cross-cutting themes
-- Relatively little attention paid to the rural sector
-- Need to focus on ‘soft’ (policy, institutional) issues
Key issues in each sector
-- Power – financing expansion through greater cost recovery
-- Roads – shifting emphasis towards unpaved network
-- Rail – strengthening regulation to improve performance
-- Water and Sanitation – capturing inefficiencies and remembering sanitation
-- ICT – boosting competition to raise access and lower prices
Zambia's Infrastructure situation is far more hopeful than many other African countries.