Region: Global
Country: Global / Non-Specific
Topic: Financing and Risk Mitigation
Keywords: Knowledge Lab, Funding and Financing
Document(s):
- Beyond the Gap How Countries Can Afford the Infrastructure They Need while Protecting the Planet14.82 MB
Document Summary:
This report aims to shift the debate regarding investment needs away from a simple focus on spending more and toward a focus on spending better on the right objectives, using relevant metrics. It does so by offering a careful and systematic approach to estimating the funding needs to close the service gaps in water and sanitation, transportation, electricity, irrigation, and flood protection. Exploring thousands of scenarios, this report finds that funding needs depend on the service goals and policy choices of low- and middle-income countries and could range anywhere from 2 percent to 8 percent of GDP per year by 2030.
Document Details:
The report begins with a look at the complex relationship between infra- structure and growth and welfare, before presenting its methodological framework (chapter 1). It then presents detailed results for water and irriga- tion (chapter 2), electricity (chapter 3), transport (chapter 4), and flood pro- tection (chapter 5). A final chapter examines what disruptive technologies could mean for the future of infrastructure services in LMICs.
The rest of this overview develops these messages and presents some sec- toral results.
Updated: June 10, 2022