The lack of widespread, sustainable, and cost effective resilient local and strategic infrastructure systems and services negatively impacts economic growth and development. Lack of strategic and local infrastructure services severely undermine the potential of countries to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Resilient, cost effective and accessible services are closely linked to multiple welfare and wellbeing measures including poverty reduction, food, energy and water security and human development. Resilient and cost-efficient levels of services, even amidst situations of shocks and stresses, are closely linked to multiple welfare dimensions such as sustained employment, poverty reduction and enhanced human development. Globally, a substantial number of people still live in poverty (Table x). The resilient infrastructure agenda, therefore, needs to be closely linked to the prospects of economic growth and employment. Careful choices made in the present moment on resilient infrastructure enhancement could have the most welfare enhancing impact.