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| Title of the article | Spatial Strategies of Multilateral Development Banks in Addressing African Cities’ Water Insecurity |
| Pages | 116-132 |
| Author 1 | Ruslan Vasilievich Dmitriev Doctor of Geography, Deputy Director Institute for African Studies RAS 30/1 Spiridonovka St., Moscow, 123001, Russian Federation This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ORCID: 0000-0003-4018-9832 |
| Author 2 | Stanislav Anatolievich Gorokhov Doctor of Geography, Professor, Head of the Centre for Global and Strategic Studies Institute for African Studies RAS 30/1 Spiridonovka St., Moscow, 123001, Russian Federation This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ORCID: 0000-0001-9984-6054 |
| Author 3 | Maksim Mikhailovich Agafoshin Candidate of Sciences (Geography), Senior Researcher of the Centre for Global and Strategic Studies Institute for African Studies RAS 30/1 Spiridonovka St., Moscow, 123001, Russian Federation This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ORCID: 0000-0002-0245-0481 |
| Abstract | The issue of providing clean water has been designated as one of the tasks of the African Union Agenda 2063. Achieving the planned targets within this task is carried out based on both the African countries’ own financial resources and international assistance from multilateral development banks. The research hypothesis is the possibility of spatially justified financing of projects by multiple donor banks within recipient country in Africa. The study examines water supply and sanitation projects (1966–2020) that were funded by International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and African Development Bank. Using central place theory, the spatial hierarchy of projects and the level of system development have been determined. It has been revealed that if a Christaller-type structure is formed by projects from one or both development banks, then a shared structure will also be a Christaller-type. The latter, in most cases, conforms less well to theoretical constructs than a structure formed by projects from a specific bank. At the same time, a Christaller-type structure can also be formed in the case of the shared structure of two systems that do not individually satisfy theoretical constructs. A group of African countries has been identified based on the spatial feasibility of complementing projects already implemented by one development bank with projects initiated by Russia. The study identifies the minimum financing volume required for each new project in each of the 19 countries in this group |
| Code | 339.96(6) |
| JEL | N57, O19, R12 |
| DOI | https://dx.doi.org/10.14530/se.2026.1.116-132 |
| Keywords | water supply, international development aid, spatial development, central place theory, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, African Development Bank, Africa |
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| For citation | Dmitriev R.V., Gorokhov S.A., Agafoshin M.M. Spatial Strategies of Multilateral Development Banks in Addressing African Cities’ Water Insecurity. Prostranstvennaya Ekonomika = Spatial Economics, 2026, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 116–132. https://dx.doi.org/10.14530/se.2026.1.116-132 (In Russian) |
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| Financing | The article was prepared within the project “The «Clean Water» project as the most important component of cooperation between the Russian Federation and the countries of the Global South: socio-economic and technological dimensions” supported by the grant from Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation program for research projects in priority areas of scientific and technological development (Agreement no. 075-15-2024-546) |
| Submitted | 23.03.2026 |
| Approved after reviewing | 26.03.2026 |
| Accepted for publication | 27.03.2026 |
| Available online | 10.04.2026 |