This paper evaluates the economic development of China using the New Economic Geography (NEG) as a framework of … process sustains it. This paper also supports the hypothesis that investment in infrastructure and fixed assets, which has … been concentrated in China due to the nature of the Special Economic Zones in the Coastal regions, and the interdependence …

-growing population. The importance of access to basic infrastructure services on welfare and the quality of life is clear. Yet the South … Asia region?s rates of access to infrastructure (sanitation, electricity, telecom, and transport) are closer to those of … of access across time, that is, across generations. It finds that while the regressivity of infrastructure services is …

China's rapid economic growth in recent decades has not led to balanced income distribution: inter- and intra … development, this paper investigates the nexus between the spatial dependence and income inequality in China on a prefectural … also the choropleth maps of clusters in China, this paper reaches the conclusion that clusters of prefectures and provinces …

This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity …

Deepening financial development and rapid economic growth in China have been accompanied by widening income disparity … on China’s growth performance. Our empirical results show that financial development significantly promotes economic … China’s regional disparities. …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of infrastructure on trade in the case of Central Asian countries …. Infrastructure is measured by the aspects of quality and quantity in three Central Asian countries - Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic … and quantity of infrastructure in Central Asia have a positive impact on trade flows. However, estimations by country …

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 …

In Japan, recent low birthrate and aging population have progressively led to a crisis for infrastructure. In … systems of enormous social capital infrastructure, we commented on the conditions and problems of two systems. To improve the …

. Three key areas are considered, namely occupational and agricultural choice; provision of public goods and infrastructure as …

that are compatible with them are infrastructure, physical and institutional, investments supported by the EU and …