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 …

Bringing together insights and perspectives from close to 70 of the world’s leading experts in the field, this timely …

financial resources that governments are able to invest in transport infrastructure projects …

This book analyses and draws policy implications from infrastructure's central role in lowering Asia's trade costs …1. Infrastructure's role in lowering Asia's trade costs / Douglas H. Brooks -- 2. Trends in Asian trade : implications … for transport infrastructure and trade costs / David Hummels -- 3. Trade infrastructure and trade costs : a study of …

(2001), 'Infrastructure, Geographical Disadvantage, Transport Costs, and Trade', World Bank Economic Review, 15 (3), 451 …C. Fred Bergsten (1997), 'Open Regionalism', World Economy, 20 (5), 545-65 -- Gerard McLinden (2006), 'Needs … Agreement: A Comparative Study Based on Six Developing Countries', World Bank Working Paper, November, 1-5, 9-35 -- J. Michael …

Analysis of infrastructure's role in facilitating international trade and consequently regional economic integration is … of the implementation of trade-related infrastructure facilities and their impacts on poverty, trade, investment and …Infrastructure and trade in Asia : an overview / Douglas H. Brooks and Jayant Menon -- A framework for considering …

, privatization or re-regulation. This affects all traditional infrastructure sectors including communications, energy, transport and …