Trends and Challenges in Infrastructure Investment in Low-Income Developing Countries

Gurara, Daniel; Klyuev, Vladimir; Mwase, Nkunde; Presbitero, Andrea F.; Xu, Xin Cindy; Bannister, Geoffrey J.

doi:10.5089/9781484324837.001

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“…Infrastructure constraints, such as a lack of roads to markets and longer-term (cooled) storage continue to restrict opportunities to earn income from excess crop production in much of the developing world. Investments in transport infrastructure have particularly lagged, despite being the largest portion in many infrastructure budgets, as the start from a low base (Gurara et al, 2017). Food transport and marketing will be sectors particularly affected when extreme rainfall leads to widespread flooding, which will particularly impact high-density cities (Vajjarapu, Verma, & Gulzar, 2019).…”

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Prioritizing Achievable Goals for Food Security in the Developing World

Rajaram¹,

Ginkel²

2021

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Many solutions have been proposed to address food security. We present here a prioritized set of actions achievable within the next 2–10 years. By taking a systems approach we follow the impact pathway backwards starting from the needs and desires of the end-users to eventually define the research agenda that will exactly address those targeted solutions with positive impacts. The following actions emerge as high-priority and achievable in the near future: new research tools to study food systems; dis-aggregated intra-household surveys to reveal within-family inequalities in food access; increased scientific consensus on climate change impacts in sub-Saharan Africa; rapid response measures to address sudden emergencies, such as capturing excess rainfall water; financial tools to enable rapid responses with recovery measures afterwards; consideration of restrictions that excess heat and humidity impose on human productivity; secure land ownership and tenure rights to encourage long-term agricultural investment; mechanization at all stages along the food system.

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Section: E) Facilitating Market Accessmentioning

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Prioritizing Achievable Goals for Food Security in the Developing World

Rajaram¹,

Ginkel²

2021

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“…In developed countries, funding for water infrastructure projects is generated internally by governments and the private sector, through general revenue or by charges imposed on water users and water service providers (Maliva 2014). However, developing countries constantly struggle with limited financial resources to invest in infrastructure development projects (Gurara et al 2017). External support to governments from international donor agencies would be vital in such cases, though not feasible or required in all countries.…”

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Underground Transfer of Floods for Irrigation (UTFI): exploring potential at the global scale

Alam¹,

Pavelic²

2020

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The publications in this series cover a wide range of subjects-from computer modeling to experience with water user associations-and vary in content from directly applicable research to more basic studies, on which applied work ultimately depends. Some research reports are narrowly focused, analytical and detailed empirical studies; others are wide-ranging and synthetic overviews of generic problems. Although most of the reports are published by IWMI staff and their collaborators, we welcome contributions from others. Each report is reviewed internally by IWMI staff, and by external reviewers. The reports are published and distributed both in hard copy and electronically (www.iwmi.org) and where possible all data and analyses will be available as separate downloadable files. Reports may be copied freely and cited with due acknowledgment. About IWMI The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is an international, research-for-development organization that works with governments, civil society and the private sector to solve water problems in developing countries and scale up solutions. Through partnership, IWMI combines research on the sustainable use of water and land resources, knowledge services and products with capacity strengthening, dialogue and policy analysis to support implementation of water management solutions for agriculture, ecosystems, climate change and inclusive economic growth. Headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka, IWMI is a CGIAR Research Center and leads the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). www.iwmi.org

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“…Furthermore, when the public sector of a country is effective in achieving its objectives, the government is seen as successful, and likely to be re-elected. To that end, Rodman (1968) and Gurara et al (2017) assert that the major challenge faced by less developed countries is not so much lack of capital or foreign aid, but a failure of the public sector structure.…”

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Empirical Assessment of Public Sector Reform in Nigeria: A Trend Analysis between 2000 and 2015

Aghaegbunam¹,

Nwakoby²,

Grace³

et al. 2020

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This study assessed the impact of public sector reforms programmes on the human resources management and civil service of the Nigerian public service. Data for the study were mainly secondary data complemented with primary data collected from stakeholders in the public service that have experienced various reforms in their career. Findings suggest that the impact of reforms on HRM and CSR were largely marginal. The positives of the reforms are mainly in the areas of improvement in salaries and functionality of pension and retirement benefits by making it contributory. These improvements in emoluments narrowed the incentives between public and private sectors and tend to attract skilled hands to the public sector that otherwise would not have been the case. However, all other policy initiatives that were aimed at ensuring effective and efficient use of scarce resources, transparency and accountability by civil servants, incentives and promotion by merit and value for money were at various stages of policy reversal, delayed implementation, and outright abandonment by compromising civil servants that selectively implement only those reforms that suits and benefits their interests. Further, successive regimes after that of former President Olusegun Obasanjo (1999-2007) who initiated most of the reforms, did not have or could not provide enough political will to sustain the benefits and the tempo of these reforms.

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Trends and Challenges in Infrastructure Investment in Low-Income Developing Countries

Cited by 45 publications

References 37 publications

Prioritizing Achievable Goals for Food Security in the Developing World

Prioritizing Achievable Goals for Food Security in the Developing World

Underground Transfer of Floods for Irrigation (UTFI): exploring potential at the global scale

Empirical Assessment of Public Sector Reform in Nigeria: A Trend Analysis between 2000 and 2015

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