The Liberalisation, De-regulation and Privatisation of the Transport Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa: Experiences, Challenges and Opportunities

Mwase, Ngila

doi:10.1093/jae/12.suppl_2.ii153

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“…The railway system is small and ineffi cient; transport costs are on average about 200 percent higher than in Southeast Asia. It is estimated that Africa has fewer roads than a country like Poland (Mwase, 2003). Compared with other regions, such as Asia, where most of the population is concentrated in the coastal areas with easy access to domestic and international markets, Africa's population is more evenly distributed across the continent, with only 19 percent of the population living in coastal areas (Sachs, 2005).…”

Section: The Role Of Infrastructurementioning

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Achieving environmental sustainability and growth in Africa: the role of science, technology and innovation

Webersik

Wilson

2009

Sustainable Development

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African economies are closely linked to natural resources and rely heavily on agriculture, largely rain fed. Agricultural development has long being considered of secondary importance in African economic development. As the current food crisis shows, it is important as this article argues to rethink not only agricultural policies, but also agricultural practices, and particularly the role science and innovation can play to address development and sustainability challenges. It is predicted that Africa will be particularly vulnerable to climate change and climate variability associated with biodiversity loss, food insecurity, water scarcity and an increase in drought frequency. This article examines pressing environmental challenges Africa is facing and discusses the role of science and technology solutions in meeting these challenges. An environmental performance country methodology is used to identify areas of best practice in achieving environmental policy targets, such as clean water or biodiversity conservation, as well as areas of action. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.

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Section: The Role Of Infrastructurementioning

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Achieving environmental sustainability and growth in Africa: the role of science, technology and innovation

Webersik

Wilson

2009

Sustainable Development

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“…• increasing the extent and speed of disease transmission • increasing out-or in-migration Going beyond conventional approaches, we can improve understanding and management of such dynamics -often indirect, complex, and interlinked -by incorporating insights from history, geography, anthropology and political economy about how "space", and hence transport, is constituted by interlinked social, economic, political and cultural relations (Massey 1994;Lee and Wills 1997;Peet 1998). The following sections discuss examples, focusing on the politics of investment, uneven development, political symbolism, and social relations.…”

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Transport, Poverty and Agrarian Change in Africa: Models, Mechanisms and New Ways Forward

deGrassi¹

2005

IDS Bulletin

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“…Framed by a broader agenda for road infrastructure investment and the encouragement of private sector performance (hence the "adjustment" policies that mainstreamed African transport economics in the last two decades of the twentieth century; see Mwase 2003), Rawlings' administrations introduced a range of reforms that favoured the private transport sector. A divestment of state-run bus operations was coupled with a favourably adjusted import policy for second-hand passenger vehicles, an increased availability of spare parts, an almost complete suspension of controls on transport fares and a massive rehabilitation of road infrastructures (Fouracre et al 1994;Gyimah-Boadi 1994: 132-133).…”

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The Popular Niche Economy of a Ghanaian Bus Station: Departure from Informality

Stasik

2018

Africa Spectrum

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This article combines the concept of a “popular economy” with that of a “niche economy” to analyse the workings of a central bus station in Accra, Ghana, and, by extension, of Ghana's public transport sector at large. In doing so it departs from generic models of the “informal sector” commonly used for describing road and roadside entrepreneurship in African contexts. At the same time, it challenges prevalent views of popular economies bent on emphasising mechanisms of reciprocity and solidarity over opportunity and profiteering. The focus on the station, it suggests, provides for a detailed reflection on the dialectics of collaboration and competition characteristic of Ghana's local transport economics, and it offers significant continuities with practices, places, and politics of economic “informality” in Africa.

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The Liberalisation, De-regulation and Privatisation of the Transport Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa: Experiences, Challenges and Opportunities

Cited by 15 publications

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Achieving environmental sustainability and growth in Africa: the role of science, technology and innovation

Achieving environmental sustainability and growth in Africa: the role of science, technology and innovation

Transport, Poverty and Agrarian Change in Africa: Models, Mechanisms and New Ways Forward

The Popular Niche Economy of a Ghanaian Bus Station: Departure from Informality

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