Inclusive and sustainable industrialization, together with innovation and infrastructure, can unleash dynamic and competitive economic forces that generate employment and income. They play a key role in introducing and promoting new technologies, facilitating international trade and enabling the efficient use of resources. Global manufacturing growth has been steadily declining, even before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic is hitting manufacturing industries hard and causing disruptions in global value chains and the supply of products. Innovation and technological progress are key to finding lasting solutions to both economic and environmental challenges, such as increased resource and energy-efficiency.

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Simple innovations bring confidence, empowerment, health, and happiness to others:

Creating prosperous infrastructure

The means for people to innovate new ideas and business practices to generate industries are dependent on the existence of infrastructure. Infrastructure allows for ideas to become business, people to work, kids and adults to be educated, access to health care, and upward social mobility. There is high correlation between the existence of poverty and people being immobile [1, 2]. Worldwide, 90% of households lack basic transportation for fundamental development needs. Public infrastructure usable by the most vulnerable can be highly impactful as countries look to have a more educated workforce and innovations to foster new markets and economic development.