Build the Foundation

Creating jobs starts with investments in the essential infrastructure required for people and businesses to thrive. These investments include physical infrastructure like roads, ports, electricity, and urban infrastructure, which is crucial for businesses to operate and connect to markets. They include human infrastructure like health care, nutrition, education and skilling, which create a thriving workforce. And they include resilient resources like clean air and safe water that are vital to increasing living standards, reducing poverty, and creating jobs. Governments and the World Bank Group’s public sector arms—IBRD and IDA—can help finance these efforts and ensure resources are used effectively.