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 …

CESEE countries lag in terms of infrastructure compared to the EU15, and deficient infrastructure is often cited as a … constraint to growth and convergence. Investing in infrastructure is therefore an important long-standing policy issue for the … region. In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, infrastructure investment has also gained some ground as economies look to …