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Africa's power infrastructure : investment, integration, efficiency /
Africa?s chronic power problems have escalated in recent years into a crisis affecting 30 countries, taking a heavy toll on economic growth and productivity. The region has inadequate generation capacity, limited electrification, low power consumption, unreliable services, and high costs. It also fa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C :
World Bank,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Infrastructure.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Africa?s chronic power problems have escalated in recent years into a crisis affecting 30 countries, taking a heavy toll on economic growth and productivity. The region has inadequate generation capacity, limited electrification, low power consumption, unreliable services, and high costs. It also faces a power sector financing gap on the order of 21 billion a year. It spends only about a quarter of what it needs to spend on power, much of this on operating expenditure required to run the continent?s high-cost power systems, leaving little for the huge investments needed to provide a long-term. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxix, 317 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780821384558 0821384554 9780821386521 0821386522 6613100048 9786613100047 1283100045 9781283100045 |