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2014 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Infrastructure and Connectivity
verfasst von : George Kararach
Erschienen in: Development Policy in Africa
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Infrastructure output is both a final good, providing services directly to consumers (e.g. power for television sets) and an intermediate input that enters into the production of other sectors, in turn raising their productivity (e.g. power as an input into manufacturing) as well as a mechanism that may define institutional and governance arrangements (Herbst, 2000). One could make the distinction between ‘economic’ infrastructure (roads, dams, etc.) and ‘social’ infrastructure (health and education platforms, etc.) or ‘physical’ and ‘soft’ infrastructure. The availability of an efficient infrastructure network/framework can stimulate new investment in other sectors or even strengthen state legitimacy, as infrastructural services are seen as fulfilment of the social contract. Conversely, shortage of infrastructure or its over-expansion in certain areas can raise costs and create disincentives to investment, as well as socio-political disharmony.