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This study evaluates infrastructure investment and finance in Asia from a global perspective. It provides an overview … on infrastructure needs and the various sources of private finance, globally and within Asia, and creates a "bigger … domestic product. The picture is expectedly not uniform across Asia, but some interesting features emerge from global …
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This study examines the determinants of blue economy activities, namely tourism and fisheries, in 21 Asia and Pacific … positively depends on the gross fixed capital formation and access to electricity in Asia and Pacific island countries. We find … support the need for, and effectiveness of, the implementation of sustainable ocean governance policies in the Asia and …
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Green growth simultaneously seeks economic development and environmental enhancement. In order to support green growth financially, the green finance sector needs to be developed. Funding and investment mechanisms of green finance are different from that of non-green finance, because green...
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Following the successful climate agreement in Paris, global attention shifted quickly to how countries will achieve their nationally determined contributions. To achieve the goals, governments need to make full use of the private sector capacity to unlock much larger flows of private investment...
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The core objective of this study is to determine the impacts of improvement and modernization of transport infrastructure on households' income. We analyzed the impacts of a rapid transit system in urban areas of Punjab Province, Pakistan. We have compared the effects of this program in Punjab...
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This paper studies the impacts of the infrastructure project on economic development in Kazakhstan. We first overview the macroeconomic situation and the development of public-private partnerships in Kazakhstan. In the empirical part of this research, we use the "difference-in-difference" (DiD)...
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This study examines the impact of the Osh-Sarytash-Irkeshtam and Sarytash-Karamyk road construction projects in the Kyrgyz Republic on regional social and economic development. Discussions of financing infrastructure in the Kyrgyz Republic context are also provided. Evaluation of impact is based...
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This paper discusses two high-profile public-private partnership projects in Tajikistan - the Dushanbe-Chanak motor toll road and Pamir Energy hydropower projects. An impact evaluation exercise was conducted for the Dushanbe-Chanak road using difference-in-difference estimates. The impact of the...
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Energy demand growth in Southeast Asian countries is predicted to be the highest in the world, with Indonesia having the highest urbanization rate. Along with growing urban areas, public infrastructures, such as streetlights, are also expanding. Unfortunately, energy conservation measures in...
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The global economy has been facing a series of adverse shocks in recent years including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate crisis, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, high inflation, and interest rate shocks driven by global monetary policy normalization. The high cost of fossil fuels since 2021,...
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