Infrastructure deficit in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS): the role of finance
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2017
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Mensah, Ebenzar Kaidabi
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This study seeks to identify and deepen the understanding of the root causes of infrastructure deficit with emphasis on the West African region. Amongst its objectives, the study explores tailored-approaches to infrastructure financing. The study takes direction from literature and similar work in the recent past and employs both conceptual and empirical - trend as well as cross correlation analysis - techniques in addressing its objectives. Literature points to Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) as the most suitable model for infrastructure finance provisioning which this study adopts. The study tests the significance of PPP and in so doing makes recommendations to policy-makers on key factors or barriers such as political stability and the absence of violence, rule of law, regulatory quality, etc. that require attention to enable the efficient use of PPP to mitigate the infrastructure gap within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the resulting consequences.
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Thesis M.M. Finance and Investment, Faculty of Commerce, Law And Management (WBS), 2016
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Mensah, Ebenzar Kaidabi (2017) Infrastructure deficit in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS): the role of finance, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <http://hdl.handle.net/10539/23674>