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1 - Duality by Design: The Global Race to Build Africa’s Infrastructure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2019

By
Nuno Gil ,
Anne Stafford  and
Innocent Musonda
Edited by
Nuno Gil ,
Anne Stafford  and
Innocent Musonda
Nuno Gil
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
Anne Stafford
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
Innocent Musonda
Affiliation:
University of Johannesburg
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Summary

This book starts from the idea that much can be learned about the design of new forms of organising, theoretically and empirically, by examining a phenomenon central to the global order: Africa’s struggle to bridge a growing gap between supply and demand for basic infrastructure. A gap linked, amongst other factors, to the rapid growth of the continent’s population, projected to reach 40 per cent of the world’s population by 2100.1 Infrastructure is a vast class of capital-intensive technologies that input into a wide range of productive processes that generate positive externalities and social surplus.

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Duality by Design
The Global Race to Build Africa's Infrastructure
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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