industry, innovation and infrastruscter is the sdg focused on creating incluive
and sustanble industrializaion to generate employment, income/ equity it is important
becuse it suports economic development.
In the year before the COVID-19 pandemic triggered the greatest economic crisis in
decades, manufacturing value added had seen the slowest
year-on-year growth rate since 2012, primarily because
of tariff and trade tensions between the most dominant economies.
The pandemic has hit the manufacturing and transport industries hard,
causing job losses and declining incomes for workers in those sectors.
The crisis poses unprecedented challenges for global value chains by disrupting
both the supply of and the demand for goods. Small-scale industries have been
severely affected, and many continue to face existential challenges. However, the
COVID-19 crisis also offers opportunities to
foster industrialization and bring groundbreaking technologies to developing countries.