infrastructure provides the basic physical facilities essential to business and society industrialization drives economic growth and job creation thereby reducing income inequality and innovation expands the technological capabilities of industrial sectors and leads to the development of new skills however inequalities in the value added in the manufacturing sector point to the steep challenges faced by the most disadvantaged countries as well as their potential for growth for example in manufacturing value added mva per capita was less than us dollars a year in the least developed countries ldcs compared to us dollars in developed regions