Air Transport (TACV) spending on infrastructure represents approximately 40 percent of the total of infrastructure spending (11 percent of GDP). From 2001–05, on average 97 percent of this spending was allocated to O&M. TACV spending on gross investment increased in 2006; yet the major share of the spending continued to be allocated to O&M (95 percent). This situation was reversed in 2007 with the introduction of private management. Furthermore, on average 20 percent of the total spending on infrastructure was allocated to electricity.93 Spending on electricity has decreased over time (as percentage of GDP), but it represented on average 5.4 percent of GDP during the analysis period. Spending on roads has been comparatively low (on average 0.8 percent of GDP from 2001–05) but it increased in 2006 to 2.48 percent of GDP, because of the IDA Credit (Cape Verde Road Sector Support Project). Roads is the sector in which O&M is the lowest, and in which the difference between asset gross investment and O&M is larger, suggesting that maintenance is very low for the level of gross investment.
