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 …

The rise of Asia, as well as the future of regional cooperation and integration (RCI) the world over, will be … profoundly influenced by the challenges of slowing productivity growth, increasing economic inequalities and systemic … lays out how such beneficial integration can generate broad-based, equitable wealth in Europe and Asia. Unique in the …

- and be very costly to fix later. Neglecting the infrastructure needs of people remaining in poor parts of East Asia …, in human and political terms. This study is about East Asia, and it's about infrastructure. It's about poverty and growth …. Connecting East Asia looks at the role that infrastructure has played in supporting East Asia's growth and looks ahead at what …