Abstract
This paper argues that although infrastructure delivery results in numerous economic
benefits, it can be a curse depending on who delivers it. This paper seeks to examine
the impact of the influx of non-domestic construction companies and the possible
effect of their activities on domestic construction enterprises, and the overall effect on
the construction industry’s development agenda of Ghana. By design the paper is
descriptive. The paper uses literature review as a method to identify, summarize and
synthesize literature on infrastructure delivery and its impact on economic growth of
nations, particularly Africa. The paper finds that major infrastructure projects are
executed mostly by non-domestic construction firms largely due their greater
experiences and resources which give them competitive advantage over their domestic
counterparts. This situation is detrimental to the growth, survival and profitability of
local construction consultants, contractors and individual practitioners and the
construction industry development agenda of Ghana. The need exist for capacity
building and / or improvement of domestic construction enterprises through
networking to meet the challenges of globalization which are inevitable. The paper
open new directions of infrastructural delivery research that focuses on the impact of
the activities of non-domestic construction enterprises on the Ghanaian construction
industry generally, the Ghanaian construction industry development agenda and the
nations’ construction related social and economic development.