This book addresses the prospects and challenges concerning both soft and hard infrastructure development in Asia and … provides a framework for achieving Asian connectivity through regional infrastructure cooperation towards a seamless Asia. Key … topics included are: demand estimates of national and regional infrastructure in transport, electricity, information and …

and Central Asia. They use it to show that improved road network quality is robustly associated with higher intraregional …

This study explores the role of governance in improving infrastructure reliability. It estimates that increasing … infrastructure spending and improving governance in parallel is six times more effective at enhancing transport system performance … infrastructure maintenance is as effective as 1.5 dollar of new investments in many OECD economies. Overall, the evidence in this …