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The ninth United Nations Sustainable Development Goal is to build resistant infrastructure,

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promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation.

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Global manufacturing production plummeted as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, falling

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6.8% in 2020. 2020 has had catastrophic effects on air travel demands. Air passengers dropped

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from $4.5 billion in 2019 to $1.8 billion in 2020. That's a 60% decline.

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Poverty is a factor of medium and high-tech products fueled economic recovery in late

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2020. 4% growth compared to the same period in 2019. Enhancing rural road connectivity

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helps reduce poverty. Almost $300 million out of $520 million rural dwellers lacked

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good access to roads in 25 countries in 2018 to 2019.

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First investment in R&D is essential to finding solutions for crises such as COVID-19. $2.2

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trillion in global investments in R&D in 2018 and 1,235 researchers per million inhabitants

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in the same year.