In the pursuit of sustainable outcomes for citizens and firms, there is more to ‌infrastructure development than building assets: investment decisions must take into account the full externality effects of projects over the long term, including employment creation, social and environmental impacts, alignment with broader development strategies, and the mobilisation of adequate resources. That is the ambition of the quality infrastructure agenda adopted by the G20.

Implementing that agenda requires strong institutional capabilities; a stable, transparent and effective regulatory framework; a great deal of technical and financial expertise; as well as the constant refinement of an enabling environment for investors. For many developing and emerging countries, whose sustainable development crucially depends on such quality infrastructure, the challenges can be daunting.

In order to better understand their difficulties, and promote adequate policy responses by developing countries and their partners, the OECD Development Centre has launched a series of analytical studies and dialogues.

 

Reports

Innovation for Water Infrastructure Development in the Mekong Region	Road and Rail Infrastructure in Asia	Towards Smart Urban Transportation in Southeast Asia, China and India	Quality Infrastructure in 21st Century Africa	Building and financing the transport infrastructure of tomorrow: The case of Colombia
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Related work

The OECD Implementation Handbook for Quality Infrastructure Investment

See more from the OECD on Strategic Policies for Sustainable Infrastructure

Events

Launch of the OECD Compendium of Policy Good Practices for Quality Investment , a reference for policymakers and practitioners in both developed and developing economies, during the Symposium on Quality Infrastructure Investment in November 2020. Event organised by the OECD and sponsored by the Government of Japan. Read the summary report of the event.

DEVtalk online discussion - Quality for equality: Making quality infrastructures work for gender equality  

Blog posts

Why do we need to invest in quality infrastructure? By Koki Hirota, Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Saitama University and Visiting Fellow, JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development

A tale of two female citizens, by Mary Waithiegeni Chege, Founder and Principal, EMSI & Associates

“Ambidexterous” development: changing the paradigm, by Nuno Gil, Professor of New Infrastructure Development, Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester

Quality Infrastructure: putting principles into practice – the viewpoint of a development agency, by Takenori Nasu, Senior Deputy Director, Operations Management Division, Operations Strategy Department, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)