conclusion is that a number of countries in developing Asia have significantly improved their basic infrastructure endowments in …This paper presents the state of infrastructure in developing Asian countries. It applies two distinct approaches … (growth regressions and growth accounting) to analyze the link between infrastructure, growth, and productivity. The main …

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 …

-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 …

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 …

infrastructure to contribute to the development of stable, well-paid employment in rural areas of low-income countries. Particular …

We examine the evolution of infrastructure, and the impact of infrastructure investment, in middle-income countries … (MICs). We document how different types of infrastructure stocks, as well as infrastructure investment, vary with the level … provision of infrastructure varies across development stages; there is a focus on basic infrastructure, such as transport, water …

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 …

commonality through return and volatility. Cross-market liquidity commonality in Asia increased significantly during and after the …

While developing Asia has recovered strongly from the global crisis, the region faces the medium- and long … Asia's growth. Our results also confirm the relevance of supply-side factors, in particular human capital and openness to … trade, for developing Asia's medium- and long-term growth. The overarching implication for policy makers is that supply …