The Impact of Digital Infrastructure on the Sustainable Development Goals: A Study for Selected Latin American and Caribbean Countries
This publication identifies the role of digital infrastructure in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)--including education, employment, agricultural sustainability, food security, and spatial inequality--in 12 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. It identifies a gap between the outcomes achieved for each SDG in the countries studied and those achieved in OECD countries. Moreover, the region still has a long way to go to achieve the SDG targets set in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The authors explain how investment in digital infrastructure can help close the gaps between the region and these two benchmarks (OECD countries and SDG targets). They also quantify the investment in telecom in the region between 2008 and 2017 and estimate what amount is still needed to help close these gaps.
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| Language: | English |
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Inter-American Development Bank
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| Subjects: | Digital Infrastructure, Digital Transformation, Broadband Policy, Broadband Service, Sustainable Development, Service Network, Telecommunication, H54 - Infrastructures • Other Public Investment and Capital Stock, O10 - Economic Development: General, L86 - Information and Internet Services • Computer Software, L98 - Government Policy, L51 - Economics of Regulation, L43 - Legal Monopolies and Regulation or Deregulation, |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0001685 https://publications.iadb.org/en/impact-digital-infrastructure-sustainable-development-goals-study-selected-latin-american-and |
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