Infrastructural Development
Infrastructures
are the very foundation of modern economies and societies. Energy,
transport, water, telecommunications, all will continue to be essential to
future development and growth. However, infrastructure investment
requirements over the coming decades will be massive, running into trillions of
dollars. The bulk of investment will be in the developing world,
especially in the major economies such as China
,
India and Brazil. Its policy
recommendations aim to enhance capacity to meet future infrastructure needs,
including measures that could be taken to create more favourable institutional,
policy and regulatory frameworks.
Technology
Development
Zettaflop-scale computing is now available which is a thousand times
more powerful than computers of 2020 and a million times more powerful than
those of 2010. One field seeing particular benefit during this time is meteorology. Weather
forecasts can be generated with 99% accuracy over a two week period.Satellites can map wind and rain
patterns in real 
DEMOLISHING POVERTY
In 1990, the UN’s Millennium
Development Goals
included a target of halving poverty by 2015. That goal was achieved five years early. In 1990, more
than one-third (36 percent) of the world’s population lived in abject poverty; by 2010 the number had been cut in half (18 percent). Today, it is 15 percent.Extreme poverty is defined as living on less than $1.25 a day. The new goal is to move almost all the world’s
population about that line by 2030. Is that even possible?
India Towards ZERO POVERTY
