the People's Republic of China and Japan's "Partnership for Quality Infrastructure" (PQI). After introducing key issues …, which is associated with multilateral infrastructure connectivity initiatives, like the "Belt and Road Initiative" (BRI) of … and PQI against this background in more detail. While infrastructure connectivity initiatives promise to combine national …

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 …

This paper analyzes the impact of infrastructure investment on tax revenues and on the economy of the region. In 1991 …-in-difference method, and compared the tax revenues of regions along the railway line with other regions that were not affected by the … railway line. Our findings showed a positive impact on the region's tax revenue following the connection of the Kyushu rapid …