This study examines a range of crossborder infrastructure development issues related to the Asian countries. Despite … active pursuit of private investment in infrastructure by most developing countries in Asia and a growing number of success … stories, the pace of such investment remains slow. Participation by the private sector in infrastructure development has been …

Recent literature has emphasized the importance of transaction costs and infrastructure in explaining trade, access to … income, infrastructure, transaction costs and trade of selected Asian economies, this paper shows that the transaction costs …

This paper attempts to unravel the interlinkages and interconnections among infrastructure, trade openness and income …

structural adjustment programmes. Without proper trading infrastructure, no country or economic bloc can succeed in the new … over other regional blocs. This paper tries to find out the role played by infrastructure facilities in economic … major changes in future regional policies in order to remove rising regional disparities in both infrastructure and income …

Governance is an important determinant for both national and regional infrastructure development for many parts of Asia …. This study shows that institutional governance is an important determinant for national and regional infrastructure … infrastructure development. However, strong and formal regional institutions need to be developed for achieving effective regional …

infrastructure. The empirical results indicate that governance and institutions are crucial for regional infrastructure development …: every one point improvement in governance results in a 1 to 1.5 point rise in regional infrastructure. Countries (and … levels of regional infrastructure. The findings of this paper suggest that our efforts to promote regional infrastructure …