This edition of the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics presents selected papers from the ABCDE … Meetings, held May 29-30, 2006, in Tokyo, Japan. This volume presents papers on Infrastructure for Growth - emerging issues …; sustainable development and infrastructure - climate change, clean energy, and energy efficiency; rural infrastructure and …

situated a distant 20 miles from the coast managed to become the world's ninth largest economy and a leading trade and … transportation center. In Globalizing L.A., he argues that physical infrastructure development was a catalytic yet underappreciated …, and globalization. Beginning with the fierce battles over railroad and harbor development in the late nineteenth century …