Without realizing the importance of soft infrastructure, hard infrastructure cannot ensure a significant impact on …. This paper highlights where Central Asia and Caucasia regions stand in terms of physical and soft infrastructure. A gradual … improvement in physical infrastructure is observed, however, the infrastructure development pattern is uneven. Tajikistan and the …

Investment in infrastructure for increasing trade and connectivity in South Asia and Southeast Asia has been impacted … investments of an estimated $3.6 trillion by 2020 for financing of its infrastructure and connectivity projects. Increased …, such economic integration faces a multitude of challenges relating to cross-border infrastructure links, weak trade …

, improvements in physical connectivity, trade facilitation, energy cooperation, and financing infrastructure play an important role … Thailand's intra-regional trade, physical connectivity, trade facilitation, energy cooperation, and infrastructure funding as … examines the current financing mechanism of Thailand's infrastructure projects that relies heavily on public spending. The …

This paper analyzes the impact of infrastructure investment on tax revenues and on the economy of the region. In 1991 …

Infrastructure plays a key role in facilitating trade, especially since recent trade liberalization in Asia has … resulted in significant tariff reductions. This study quantifies the impacts of both hard and soft infrastructure on trade … improvements in transport infrastructure (i.e., the road density network, air transport, railways, ports, and logistics) have …

High-quality infrastructure will boost regional economic development and reduce poverty and income inequality. The … spill-over effects created by this high-quality infrastructure will be seen in the form of an increase in gross domestic … product and tax revenue in the region. These positive effects can be utilized to address the gap between infrastructure demand …

adequate infrastructure exists within their community. This study uses data from the 2013 Chinese Household Finance Survey to … investigate how the infrastructure affects the usage of formal bank loans for both urban and rural households in the People …'s Republic of China (PRC). The analysis is extended to investigate the impacts of the infrastructure on non-bank loans. The …

The recent experience of infrastructure investment in the People's Republic of China (PRC) suggests an intertwined … infrastructure investment, which then drives economic growth via various channels including reducing transaction costs and raising … productivity. Another mechanism emphasized in this paper is that infrastructure investment can promote urbanization through …

This paper examines the relationship between infrastructure development and income inequality in urban People …. Infrastructure investment plays a key role in achieving both goals, yet the effects of different infrastructures on income … disparities at the city level remain undetermined. Using 10 city-level infrastructure indicators relating to sustainable urban …

This paper attempts to distinguish and estimate the direct and indirect effects of infrastructure on firm productivity …. The latter arises from the infrastructure-agglomeration link and has been largely overlooked in the literature on … infrastructure. An analytical framework is then developed to estimate both effects. Finally, empirical results are obtained using …