Kenya's infrastructure: A continental perspective

Briceño-Garmendía, Cecilia; Shkaratan, Maria

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-5596

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“…According to the AFDB (, ), Kenya's infrastructure loses millions of dollars each year because of capital budgets that are not fully spent, while funds are redirected to unrelated recurrent expenditures. Briceño‐Garmendia and Shkaratan () suggest that this problem affects the transport and power sectors in almost equal degree, leading to lost investments of the order of $15–$20 million per year in each of these sectors. For example, capital budget execution rates in Kenya's road sector stood at only 60%, falling short of the 80% level achieved elsewhere in Africa.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Even though Kenya's road density indicators look relatively low by some standards, the length of the trunk network is considered more than adequate (Briceño‐Garmendia & Shkaratan, ). Kenya has an extensive road network of 160,886 km but only 7% of the road network is paved (11,197 km).…”

Section: Mutual Economic and Social Benefits Of Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Kenya faces several challenges in the power sub‐sector, including weak power transmission and distribution infrastructure, high cost of power, low per capita power consumption and low countrywide electricity access (Kenya, ). Briceño‐Garmendia and Shkaratan (), emphasize the hidden costs (as high as 2% of GDP) associated with the power distribution utility—in the form of underpricing, collection losses and distribution losses. China's financial support in the power sector has targeted installation of additional generation capacity.…”

Section: Mutual Economic and Social Benefits Of Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi has become one of three main international gateways in SSA. Beyond its role as an international hub, Kenya has a domestic air transport market that is the fourth‐largest in SSA (following South Africa, Nigeria and Mozambique) (Briceño‐Garmendia & Shkaratan, ). Recent expansions involving Chinese finance have provided a new JKIA Unit Four raising the airport's passenger handling capacity to nine million passengers per year, up from the previous 6 million passengers.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The corridor links Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the DRC, parts of Tanzania, South Sudan and Ethiopia. Owing to its current deterioration, freight traffic on the rail corridor has declined substantially (Briceño‐Garmendia & Shkaratan, ). The Mombasa port is currently congested because of inadequate railroad capacity, exacerbated by low capacity road transportation from the port.…”

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China's development loans and the threat of debt crisis in Kenya

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The increased access of African countries to external capital markets has rekindled interest in growing external borrowing and placed debt sustainability at the forefront of the continent's policy agenda. In this article, we discuss the conceptual link between external loans and debt challenges. In this article, the analysis is cast in the context of new sources of loans triggered by Sino–African co‐operation. The article examines the main sectors targeted for financing in Kenya, how the Chinese‐funded projects have been structured, the financial models adopted to deliver on the projects, and the overall gains from such projects. Ultimately, the article examines the external debt situation in Kenya and how Chinese loans are likely to precipitate a crisis of sustainability. The analysis shows that, although the external financial support plays a critical role in addressing the gap in Kenya's infrastructure development, the loans also pose risks of debt sustainability in the longer term, Chinese loans particularly are tied and lack transparency. The emerging debt challenges point to the need for policy reforms in favour of enhancing loans transparency and the beneficial impacts. This would enhance the repayment capacity of borrowing countries.

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Bulldozers, homes and highways: Nairobi and the right to the city

Manji

2015

Review of African Political Economy

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In Kenya road building, widely viewed as an ‘unqualified human good’, is closely linked to an ‘Africa Rising’ narrative. In this paper the author argues that road building is an attempt to assert political authority derived from a longstanding developmentalist impulse, one in which private accumulation and spectacular public works go hand in hand. In light of massive infrastructural transformations, the author develops a conceptualisation of the right to the city: what is needed is a radical understanding of the city and its potentialities that wrests control of the idea away from a bureaucratic vision, and imbues it instead with collective meaning.

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Land-based financing in sub-Saharan African cities

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Cirolia²,

Palmer³

2018

Environment and Urbanization

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Decentralization reforms and rapid urbanization place increasing pressure on African urban authorities. In response, land-based finance has been gaining popularity within development discourses as a method of increasing local autonomy and financing local government infrastructure provision. This paper discusses the conceptual basis for land-based finance, the instruments that form part of this approach, and the actual application in several African cities. Drawing on three case studies (Addis Ababa, Harare and Nairobi) and a high-level scan of 29 developments in various African cities, we show how land-based finance is being implemented in practice and discuss the potential for wider uptake. We conclude that African city governments are using land-based financing, albeit in inconsistent ways. We argue that urban authorities should consider the more extensive and progressive use of land-based financing instruments, despite the constraints imposed by both technical and political conditions. A progressive agenda for local government finance in African cities should take land-based finance seriously, as well as the local practices and institutional arrangements through which it operates.

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Kenya's infrastructure: A continental perspective

Cited by 9 publications

References 9 publications

China's development loans and the threat of debt crisis in Kenya

China's development loans and the threat of debt crisis in Kenya

Bulldozers, homes and highways: Nairobi and the right to the city

Land-based financing in sub-Saharan African cities

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