This article focuses on the role of cross-border infrastructure in the process of regional integration in developing Asia. The first section sets the context, examining Asia?s phenomenal growth in trade and investment over the past two and half decades. The second section reviews four case...

The 1997–98 financial crisis prompted East Asian economies to realise the potential benefits of installing stronger cooperative mechanisms for crisis prevention, management and resolution. This paper argues that a regional financial architecture needs to be firmly established in East Asia,...

This paper is an edited version of the text of the Distinguished Persons Lecture delivered by Mr Haruhiko Kuroda, President of Asian Development Bank at ESCAP in Bangkok on 11 November 2010. The region needs to invest in an efficient system of regional infrastructure for a seamless Asia to...

This Keynote Address gives a high-level overview of the issues of social and economic development facing the region. Markets have played a significant role in advancing economic and social development in developing Asia, in terms of structural transformation as economies move from agrarian and...