In this podcast we are going global and focusing the conversation around the findings of a new report published recently by Economist Impact called Infrastructure for Good – Building for a better world.

The report has been produced in association with Duke University in the US and is supported by global consultancy Deloitte. There's a link to the report in the resources section below.

Essentially the report points out that while infrastructure is a transformational investment for supporting growth and social development and touches nearly all of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), around the world this investment delivers widely divergent outcomes.

In short, without proper planning and a clear understanding of the factors behind this divergence, infrastructure can actually increase rather than reduce global inequality.

To guide us through this report, the conclusions and its recommendations, and of course to explain how it has been possible to properly understand how infrastructure investment value can be benchmarked, I am joined today from New York by Pratima Singh, Principal in Policy & Insights at Economist Impact, one of the report authors and an expert in the economic and social drivers from infrastructure investment.

Resources
Infrastructure for Good report
Infrastructure for Good website
Case studies
The Barometer data
Infrastructure for good - the methodology