region's growth. The complexity of responding to these demands is greater than ever, and the cost of getting things wrong … - particularly in rural areas, and in isolated countries of the region; and failing to include them in growth, would also be costly …, in human and political terms. This study is about East Asia, and it's about infrastructure. It's about poverty and growth …

prospects as an engine of growth. Our analysis resoundingly confirms the conventional wisdom of an underperforming service …