Navid Hanif, Director of Financing for Sustainable Development Office at the United Nations, said that the Middle East and North Africa region would need to spend at least 8.2 percent of GDP to achieve infrastructure goals by 2030.
“With the population of the Middle East and North Africa expected to increase by more than 40 percent over the next few decades, and with increasing industrial demand, the region will need to invest more than $100 billion annually to maintain and build the infrastructure to serve the growing communities and cities,” Hanif told Asharq Al-Awsat.
