The Belt and Road initiative, recently embarked on by China, aims to improve cross-border infrastructure in order to … reduce transportation costs across a massive geographical area between China and Europe. The authors estimate how much trade … true for eastern Europe and Central Asia and, to a lesser extent, south-east Asia. In contrast, if China were to seek to …

The significance of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) for Europe is increasing … infrastructure and to date have limited access to EU grants. The economic effects of infrastructure projects in CESEE would, however …. EU initiatives presented in 2018 may help to increase complementarity between Chinese and European infrastructure …

New Silk Road railways have provided cross-continental rail freight services between China and Eurasian countries since … China. To address the issue of endogenous placement of railways, we utilize the generalized synthetic control method. We … countries based on whether they share boundary with China …

of Afghanistan: economic relationship between Tajikistan and Afghanistan in post-Soviet time; transport infrastructure …

. Improving the transit infrastructure is one way of addressing these issues. This paper assesses Tajikistan's pursuit of transit …

transportation infrastructure and the historical diffusion of technology along the routes but cannot be explained by differences in …

production networks. In the 1970-80ś, South Asia stagnated due to its inward-oriented growth strategy and lack of infrastructure … regions. This paper examines the prospects and challenges of enhancing trade, investment, production and infrastructure …