recent infrastructure initiatives in the Asia-Pacific and Eurasian regions. Although the current public debate on … connectivity is dominated by an attention on China's 2013 Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Japan has actually been engaged in … international infrastructure schemes at least since the 1980s. This does not only hold for the Japanese state, but also for major …

Well-developed infrastructure systems and services are vital means of enhancing the connectivity of Asia …-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies. In essence, efforts by APEC to enhance connectivity through infrastructure should … cooperation on its own. To contribute to APEC efforts and at the same time help meet the infrastructure development needs of the …

Infrastructure services, from both hard and soft infrastructure, play a vital role in facilitating Asia's export …-led growth by keeping the prices of delivered goods in export markets competitive. Efficient infrastructure services lower … supply chains and distribution networks for producers. Asia's trade patterns are characterized by a high degree of …

This paper studies regional treatment effects of infrastructure projects on economic growth, employment and intermodal …

Road Initiative (BRI) in 2019-23, from a project-oriented perspective. As a source we use data of the China Global … Quality Infrastructure" program launched in 2015, other most recently (2021-2022) established Western rival infrastructure …

This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity …

This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity …