The Economist: The critical role of infrastructure for the Sustainable Development Goals

The critical role of infrastructure for the Sustainable Development Goals is an essay written by The Economist Intelligence Unit and supported by UNOPS, the UN organisation with a core mandate for infrastructure. The research uses three pillars—the economy, the environment and wider society— as well as the overarching theme of resilience through which to assess the role of infrastructure in meeting global social and environmental goals.
Infrastructure should not be viewed as individual assets, such as a power plant, a hospital or a water network, but as part of a system with a portfolio of assets that collectively hold great potential to deliver the three pillars of the SDGs: economic, environmental and social sustainability.