production networks in Asia, with particular reference to the role of China. I conclude with a brief discussion of new … China Circle, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., 1997) …

The paper deals with the interplay of major international infrastructure initiatives, in particular China’s Belt and … China’s initiative at first followed a “low-price” strategy, Japan reacted with a “quality infrastructure” approach, also … Road Initiative, Japan’s Partnership for Quality Infrastructure and the EU strategy on “Connecting Europe and Asia”. Their …

recent infrastructure initiatives in the Asia-Pacific and Eurasian regions. Although the current public debate on … connectivity is dominated by an attention on China's 2013 Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Japan has actually been engaged in … international infrastructure schemes at least since the 1980s. This does not only hold for the Japanese state, but also for major …

assistance programs were mainly allocated in the form of loans for economic infrastructure projects. This orientation attests … location choice even though other profit-maximising factors such as agglomeration effects or the quality of infrastructure had … importance of a complementary process in which foreign aid is directed towards the development of infrastructure, acting as a pre …

sources of institutional trajectories of economic development in China, Japan, and Korea. It stylizes the Malthusian-phase of … states of Qing China, Tokugawa Japan, and Yi Korea by focusing on the way in which agricultural taxes were enforced. It also …