Infrastructure March 2021 Digital Edition

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TRAINING AND SKILLS

INFRASTRUCTURE SKILLS IN A POST-COVID WORLD by Claire Parry, Managing Director, Infrastructure Skills Advisory

Governments across the world are looking for strategies for fast economic recovery following world-changing events, such as the current pandemic. Part of their solution is to leverage their own investments, by fast-tracking infrastructure projects to create new jobs and business opportunities, particularly with existing skills shortages in the construction sector. If poorly implemented, however, rather than providing a sustainable economic solution with long-term business and employment opportunities, it may simply be a short-term fix.

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