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INTERSECTING – Sustainable responses to Covid-19 pandemic Vol3

Sustainable Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic Sustainable Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic#distribution #inclusion #infrastructure ISBN 9 782957 990542published June 2021 Download individual articles in PDF as a zip file Download Volume 3 as PDF Read the E-Book Editorial Board INTERSECTING Volume 3 as E-Book

Digital inclusion strategies for the G20 – Lessons in public-private cooperation from India and Africa

Public digital infrastructure, including hard and soft variants, encourages competition, innovation and inclusion. Through the India Stack and Modular Open Source Identity Platform (MOSIP), the Indian experience offers developing countries a path to leapfrog the development phase for digital platforms. Open-source systems offer countries an opportunity to establish low-cost public identity, financial and data exchange … Read more

Digitally enhanced infrastructures: A three-dimensional approach

The collapse of supply chains and the dramatic shift in aggregate demand due to COVID-19 increased the significance of the strategic resilience of infrastructures as well as the importance of their being agile and flexible in order to address local-specific needs, especially during times of distress. Most importantly, it indicated that an infrastructure is not … Read more

A regional connectivity partnership for the Mediterranean

Changes in global value chains and reshoring trends brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic represent an opportunity for sustainable and inclusive economic development of the Mediterranean region. While the region has increased its participation in trade and global value chains, it remains below its potential due to limited connectivity and the lack of adequate investment … Read more

A compass for global recovery: Integrating environmental criteria into Infrastructure Investment

The G20 Quality Infrastructure Investment (QII) Principles agreed in 2019 confirmed that ecosystem, biodiversity and climate considerations should be incorporated into infrastructure investing. Nevertheless, integration of environmental factors especially related to biodiversity into infrastructure investment remains inadequate, while infrastructure development continues to put natural capital and critical ecosystems at risk. This is due to insufficient … Read more

Subnational government infrastructure financing for carbon neutrality

Infrastructure policies, investment and finance ought to be aligned to net-zero emission targets. Nationally Determined Contributions ought to be cascaded down to subnational government (SNG) levels through (i) harmonising carbon neutral policy agenda backed by legal and regulatory framework; (ii) adopting a fiscal framework that integrates funding support for carbon vulnerabilities, and introduces a carbon … Read more

Maintaining resilient infrastructure systems

Improving maintenance management and increasing investment in infrastructure maintenance makes it possible to boost the resilience of infrastructure against a variety of threats. This has a positive financial return for developed as well as developing countries. Building on the issues outlined in two seminal T20 Policy Briefs Building Resilient Infrastructure Systems (ABDI, 2020) and Evaluating … Read more

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