Building a Highway Infrastructure in Africa

Building a Highway Infrastructure in Africa

   We are reading Herbst' States and Power in Africa for a grad school class and the author has a chapter that does a poor job of examining the road networks (or lack thereof) in Africa.  This 2006 report does a great job of investigating the highway infrastructure (and potential) in Africa.  There's a powerpoint and a report at the link below.  The next step in this line of thought would be to connect the highway infrastructure development to the needed port infrastructure development.

Time to Build a Trans-Africa Road Network: New Analysis of the Costs and Benefits, and Preliminary Suggestions on How the Donors Could Make it Happen

I've listened to the guy who chaired the event lecture and he's a sharp and dynamic speaker (Todd Moss)--you should follow him on twitter (@toddjmoss).

http://www.cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/6483/
http://www.cgdev.org/doc/event%20docs/Trans-African%20Network%20-%20for%20distribution.ppt