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 facilitating trade, especially since recent trade liberalization in Asia has … resulted in significant tariff reductions. This study quantifies the impacts of both hard and soft infrastructure on trade … improvements in transport infrastructure (i.e., the road density network, air transport, railways, ports, and logistics) have …

Development economists have considered physical infrastructure to be a precondition for industrialization and economic … effectiveness of infrastructure in reducing poverty is important, experimental evaluation, such as randomized control trials (RCT …)-based evaluation, is difficult in the context of large-scale infrastructure. Second, while micro studies so far have focused on the …

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 …

This paper aims to identify the role of digitalization and infrastructure in two fast-growing Asian economies, namely … NARDL technique. The results show that internet and mobile density (a proxy for telecommunication infrastructure …, per capita electricity power consumption (a proxy for electricity infrastructure), research and development expenditure …