This study is a product of the africa infrastructure country diagnostic aicd a project designed to expand the worlds knowledge of physical infrastructure in africa the aicd provides a baseline against which future improvements in infrastructure services can be measured making it possible to monitor the results achieved from donor support it also offers a more solid empirical foundation . Further development of regional power trade would allow africa to harness larger scale more cost effective energy sources reducing energy system costs by 2 billion a year and saving 70 million tons of carbon emissions annually economic returns to investments in cross border transmission are particularly high. The overall deficiency of the power sector has constrained economic and social development according to the authors of this report although the extent of the problems and challenges differs across regions and countries sub saharan africa has generally lagged other regions of the world in terms of infrastructure and power sector investment and performance. A power crisis exacerbated by drought conflict and high oil prices high power costs that generally do not cover costs deficient power infrastructure constrains social and economic development the promise of regional power trade uneven distribution and poor economies of scale despite power pools low regional power trade. Africas power infrastructure investment integration efficiency directions in development dec 14 2020 posted by roald dahl media publishing text id f88bda9e online pdf ebook epub library integration efficiency directions in development by eberhard directions in development general africas power infrastructure sector being diverted elsewhere in the