This book addresses the prospects and challenges concerning both soft and hard infrastructure development in Asia and provides a framework for achieving Asian connectivity through regional infrastructure cooperation towards a seamless Asia. Key topics included are: demand estimates of national...

Numerous studies have explored IT expenditure benefits and the options such expenditure creates. These options are seen as intangible assets created by investing in IT (Kholi et al, 2012). Benefits of IT Expenditure (BITE) are assessed by the perception of senior executives. Perceptions of BITE...

What is the impact on intranational trade and regional economic outcomes when the quality and lane capacity of an existing paved road network is expanded significantly? This paper investigates this question for the case of Turkey, which undertook a large-scale public investment in roads during...