Reducing Poverty by Closing South Asia’s Infrastructure Gap

“Reducing Poverty by Closing South Asia’s Infrastructure Gap” reveals that the region’s growing demands for infrastructure has enlarged an existing infrastructure gap. According to the report, addressing it will require investing as much as $2.5 trillion over the next ten years: one third to be spent on transport, one third on electricity, and the remainder on water supply and sanitation, solid waste management, telecommunications, and irrigation. The report emphasises how the women, the poor and marginalised social groups are particularly affected by the region’s infrastructure gap. The report authors also lay out a set of methodologies for prioritising infrastructure projects based on identifying and quantifying the factors that affect infrastructure investment decisions.