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News Publication Date 14 October 2021 Published 14 Oct 2021

Infrastructure as a stimulus is $3.2 trillion – What outcomes can we expect for people and planet?

A new GI Hub initiative, launching in November 2021, tracks the amount of infrastructure as a stimulus announced by G20 governments and presents data insights that will help governments, investors, multilateral development banks, and project directors achieve transformative outcomes from infrastructure in the post-COVID-19 recovery.

Between February 2020 and August 2021, governments announced USD3.2 trillion in infrastructure as a stimulus, which is equivalent to 3.2% of GDP across G20 member and guest economies. If spent in the next two years, this investment would represent a 45% increase in yearly infrastructure investment compared with 2019 levels.

Through our Transformative Outcomes through Infrastructure initiative, including an InfraTracker that reports on infrastructure as a stimulus, the GI Hub is providing a single-stop resource for those who want to:

  • Understand the outcomes being targeted by recent infrastructure as a stimulus, and the shifts they signal in the infrastructure landscape
  • Understand what the data say about how best to achieve transformative outcomes through infrastructure
  • Access guidance on how to achieve transformative outcomes.

This initiative was initiated at the request of the G20 and is referenced in the recent G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors’ Fourth Progress Report on the G20 Action Plan. In November 2021, we will make the tool publicly available, free of cost, on our website, enabling access to:

  • Data on infrastructure as a stimulus, including continually updated data and data insights drawn from our analyses of announced stimulus by country, sector, and other characteristics
  • Insights on the investments of specific countries and their transformative potential
  • Guidance for achieving transformative outcomes through infrastructure as a stimulus.

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