, political, and governance variables to assess the determinants of private financing of infrastructure in emerging markets and … developing economies. Controlling for economic characteristics, we find that overall private participation of infrastructure … infrastructure. Our results do not vary when controlling for income inequality and across quartiles of experience, country wealth …

The Asian region has experienced substantial growth over the past several decades. Indeed, a quarter of all world … exports now come from East Asia. Strong infrastructure underpinnings have often been cited as a major factor contributing to …. Overall quantity and quality of infrastructure services remain uneven both across, and within, countries in the Asian region …

infrastructure. The empirical results indicate that governance and institutions are crucial for regional infrastructure development …: every one point improvement in governance results in a 1 to 1.5 point rise in regional infrastructure. Countries (and … levels of regional infrastructure. The findings of this paper suggest that our efforts to promote regional infrastructure …