, improvements in physical connectivity, trade facilitation, energy cooperation, and financing infrastructure play an important role … Thailand's intra-regional trade, physical connectivity, trade facilitation, energy cooperation, and infrastructure funding as … examines the current financing mechanism of Thailand's infrastructure projects that relies heavily on public spending. The …

Colombo port are underway as part of Sri Lanka's renewed efforts to develop its infrastructure following the long internal … separatist conflict that ended in 2009. Despite significant improvements in physical infrastructure connectivity, Sri Lanka has … the growing external debt financing of many large infrastructure projects through state-led investment initiatives. Thus …

impediments in cross-border infrastructure, FTAs, trade barriers and business regulations, and barriers to services will foster …

infrastructure. The empirical results indicate that governance and institutions are crucial for regional infrastructure development …: every one point improvement in governance results in a 1 to 1.5 point rise in regional infrastructure. Countries (and … levels of regional infrastructure. The findings of this paper suggest that our efforts to promote regional infrastructure …

Infrastructure plays a key role in promoting and sustaining rapid economic growth. Properly designed infrastructure can … in infrastructure development, the growth of infrastructure lags behind its economic growth, and also behind … international standards of infrastructure quantity and quality. Inadequate infrastructure can hamper the potential economic growth …

Investment in infrastructure for increasing trade and connectivity in South Asia and Southeast Asia has been impacted … investments of an estimated $3.6 trillion by 2020 for financing of its infrastructure and connectivity projects. Increased …, such economic integration faces a multitude of challenges relating to cross-border infrastructure links, weak trade …

international trade and inequality; and third, the links between infrastructure and inequality. Both international trade and … infrastructure make it easier for people to exchange goods and services and to increase income by allowing specialization, economies … constitutes a challenge. However, the answer should not be to eschew opening up the economy or building infrastructure, but to do …

transnational transport networks? Thirdly, what are the main investment opportunities in physical infrastructure that would result …