A recent Asian Development Bank publication estimates the large infrastructure financing requirement in Asia for the …. This paper analyzes a critical aspect of expanding private finance to infrastructure by examining the role of bank lending … project financing by banks to infrastructure PPP projects is still in its infancy in several Asian markets, and banks are …

This paper investigates the trade effects of transportation infrastructure reforms funded by the Asian Development Bank … (ADB) in the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) program. To do this, we applied a combination of geographic … bilateral transport time to address the endogeneity between trade and infrastructure. Finally, implementing the partial …

supply of social infrastructure. If successfully pursued, PPP can deliver benefits to users, governments, and the private … renegotiation of PPPs. PPPs are not a must-have solution but an option for building and upgrading infrastructure. In conclusion … promoting the PPP modality for infrastructure. …

Infrastructure development in Southeast Asia has been financed mainly by public funds, which leave wide gaps in … implementation is not limited to hard infrastructure only, but also to social infrastructure. …

-income economies, respectively. Results pertaining to the Asia and Pacific region reveal infrastructure on telecommunications, roads …This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the issues, policies, and political economy of infrastructure … investment, and a review of empirical literature of the relationship between growth and infrastructure. Empirical estimations …

Developing Asia's infrastructure gap results from both inadequate public resources and a lack of effective channel to … infrastructure gap. However, PPP projects are often at risk of becoming distressed or worst being terminated because of the long …

financing for infrastructure projects. Our empirical results reconfirm the fact that banks remain the major source of finance … for infrastructure projects. The domestic bond market should be further developed to have depth and liquidity enough to …-term financing to private sector participation in infrastructure investments. …