Cross Cutting Themes
Infrastructure has a pivotal role to play in reducing poverty around the world. Unless the world's poor gain greater access to transport, energy, water and telecommunications, the likelihood of achieving the internationally agreed Millennium Development Goals will remain in serious doubt.
There is a strong linkage between infrastructure investments, economic growth, and the reduction of poverty. Infrastructure can provide improved access to education and health services, water and sanitation, employment, credit, and markets for produce.
It can reduce transactions costs and facilitate trade flows, both within and across national borders. Investing in improved infrastructure creates employment directly, for example through public works, and indirectly by lowering the costs of inputs and making businesses more profitable.
Sub-Sectors
Transport against HIV/AIDS
Increasing women farmers' access to information in rural Uganda
