This study evaluates infrastructure investment and finance in Asia from a global perspective. It provides an overview … on infrastructure needs and the various sources of private finance, globally and within Asia, and creates a "bigger … comparisons. Overall, the private sector still plays a relatively subdued role. Bank loans dominate private infrastructure finance …

The authors examine the influence of infrastructure, institutional quality, colonial and geographic context, and trade … bilateral country pairs do not actually trade. The authors depart from the institutions and infrastructure literature in this … access to well-developed transport and communications infrastructure. Indeed, this dependence is far more important …

We work with a panel of bilateral trade flows from 1988 to 2002, exploring the influence of infrastructure … the institutions and infrastructure literature in this respect, using selection-based gravity modeling of trade flows. We … system at all, depends on institutional quality and access to well developed transport and communications infrastructure …

The authors examine the influence of infrastructure, institutional quality, colonial and geographic context, and trade … bilateral country pairs do not actually trade. The authors depart from the institutions and infrastructure literature in this … access to well-developed transport and communications infrastructure. Indeed, this dependence is far more important …