Senegal's Infrastructure : A Continental Perspective
Between 2000 and 2005 infrastructure made a contribution of 1 percentage point to Senegal's improved per capita growth performance, placing it in the middle of the distribution among West African countries during the period. Raising the countr...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/713131468008717806/Senegals-infrastructure-a-continental-perspective http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27256 |
| Summary: | Between 2000 and 2005 infrastructure
made a contribution of 1 percentage point to Senegal's
improved per capita growth performance, placing it in the
middle of the distribution among West African countries
during the period. Raising the country's infrastructure
endowment to that of the region's middle-income
countries (MICs) could boost annual growth by about 2.7
percentage points. Senegal has made significant progress in
some areas of its infrastructure. In the transport sector,
road standards are adequate and their quality average.
Senegal has also strengthened the road institutional
framework with the creation of the Second Generation Road
Fund (FERA) and the Road Maintenance Executing Agency. It
has also managed to have a toll road concession granted for
the Dakar-Diamniadio Toll Highway. The tariffs in the
railway sector are internationally competitive, and there
has been improvement in the financial viability of ports.
After Nigeria, the country stands as an emerging hub and a
major player in air transport. Also, Senegal has managed to
introduce private participation in electricity generation,
and the unbundling of the electricity sector is under way
even as the country actively participates in the regional
power market. The country is on track to meet the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) in improved water. In the
information and communication technology (ICT) sector there
has been an impressive expansion of the mobile and Internet
markets. Senegal already spends around $911 million per year
on infrastructure, equivalent to about 11 percent of its
gross domestic product (GDP). Almost $312 million a year is
lost to inefficiencies of various kinds, associated mainly
with under-pricing in the power and water sectors, poor
financial management of utilities, and inefficient
allocation of resources across sectors. If Senegal could
raise tariffs to cost-recovery levels and reduce operational
inefficiencies in line with reasonable developing-country
benchmarks, it could substantially boost its infrastructure sector. |
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