connectivity as well as infrastructure financing needs in Asia. It also examines the nature and characteristics of existing and new … trade-driven growth through increased intraregional infrastructure connectivity and regional economic integration. In 1992 … finance greater physical connectivity, at the pan-Asian, sub-regional and national levels, Asia will require a strong and …

traditional role of a development bank in closing market gaps in long-term, low-cost and stable infrastructure lending and in …

Investment in infrastructure for increasing trade and connectivity in South Asia and Southeast Asia has been impacted … investments of an estimated $3.6 trillion by 2020 for financing of its infrastructure and connectivity projects. Increased … connectivity between South and Southeast Asia can play an important role in improving efficiency and productivity by having more …

Asia given the backdrop of a changing world in which development priorities and challenges are changing rapidly and the …This paper examines the complementary and competitive roles of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in … recent efforts at improving aid coordination. With this background, the paper examines the roles of the World Bank and ADB in …

The growing trend of urban city development requires various infrastructure investments, including water supply … potentially create a time delay in infrastructure investment and huge budget deficits. If these infrastructure investments were … financed by overseas investors, future exchange rate risks would have to be carried by infrastructure companies. This paper …

faced and their business environment. The business environment includes physical infrastructure, the availability of an …

, improvements in physical connectivity, trade facilitation, energy cooperation, and financing infrastructure play an important role … within an ongoing Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) framework. Extending connectivity to South Asia could also … Thailand's intra-regional trade, physical connectivity, trade facilitation, energy cooperation, and infrastructure funding as …

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 …

One of the main challenges in low-income Asia and the Pacific countries is users' willingness to pay for water services … effects of water supply infrastructure, including spillover effects or externalities, the impacts are significant. One of the … spillover effects of the development of water supply infrastructure could be the development of the region by inviting new …

Despite remarkable growth during the last decade, Asia and the Pacific still faces extensive basic infrastructure needs … region needs to enhance its connectivity through developing transport infrastructure at the national and regional level to … infrastructure will have profound implications on environment and climate change at the national, regional and global levels as well …