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 …

While bringing positive impacts and benefits, cross-border infrastructure projects face additional challenges relative … factors, and their obstacles constrain the development of cross-border infrastructure projects. This paper argues that proper … wherever necessary, will promote the further development of cross-border infrastructure projects …

The recent experience of infrastructure investment in the People's Republic of China (PRC) suggests an intertwined … infrastructure investment, which then drives economic growth via various channels including reducing transaction costs and raising … productivity. Another mechanism emphasized in this paper is that infrastructure investment can promote urbanization through …

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 …

and the successful implementation of cross-border infrastructure projects. They provide detailed information concerning … infrastructure projects, who should conduct them, and what determines their existence. The literature points to the importance of … government involvement in transnational infrastructure projects as there are clear external benefits which will otherwise not be …

countries have allocated the bulk of their fiscal stimulus packages to infrastructure spending, the present levels are … nevertheless considered insufficient to create a large impact on growth. By focusing on the provision of infrastructure and social … encourage and renew private sector interest in infrastructure investment in the region, governments have an important role to …

Asia faces very large infrastructure funding demands, estimated at around US$750 billion per year for energy, transport …, and rapid accumulations of funds that could be utilized for meeting these infrastructure investment needs, but Asian … markets have failed to use available resources to channel funding into highly needed infrastructure projects. This paper …

-border infrastructure projects. It first defines what constitutes cross-border infrastructure projects, and then outlines an analytical …-border infrastructure projects that need to be stressed in covering broader and indirect impacts that are not usually captured in the … cross-border infrastructure projects. It also reports on emerging impacts patterns evidenced in relevant studies. The paper …

-private partnerships (PPPs) to accelerate the development of (ambitious) trans-national infrastructure. This paper argues that in the EU (i … cost of risk to zero, making EU funds highly desirable and sought after for public infrastructure development. This paper …

This study examines a range of cross-border infrastructure development issues related to the Asian countries. Despite … active pursuit of private investment in infrastructure by most developing countries in Asia and a growing number of success … stories, the pace of such investment remains slow. Participation by the private sector in infrastructure development has been …