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Here's how to pay for all that new infrastructure. Governments and developers worldwide are looking for better ways to build and renovate highways, railways, bridges and dams.
This major new book from ADBIPress provides real answers on how to attract private financing. Latest evidence on the full impacts of infrastructure on economic and social indicators, especially spillover effects, and innovative ideas for new financing are comprehensively presented by experts.
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Financing Infrastructure in Asia and the Pacific: Capturing Impacts and New Sources
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2018-03-30)
This major book from ADBI Press aims to provide the latest scientific evidence on infrastructure investment, including new ideas as to how to finance infrastructure. The editors believe the 500-page book will make an important contribution to help Asia ...
Introducing the Tax-Kicker Bond: Budget-Neutral Financing of Private Infrastructure by Back-End Participation in Future Tax Revenue Growth
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2017-08-30)
This brief shows the spillover effect of how infrastructure can create jobs, industries, and regional wealth. Revenue from property rates, income and business taxes, as well as sales or value-added tax increases along the periphery and adjacent areas ...
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The Role of Waterways in Promoting Urban Resilience: The Case of Kochi City
(Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2018-05-15)Coastal cities around the world are locales of high vulnerability. The issues are graver in the developing world where the challenges posed by the urbanization and climate change multiply the existing risks. Here, we examine the case of Kochi, an Indian ... -
Inclusive Service Delivery for Persons with Disabilities in Mongolia
(Asian Development Bank, 2018-05-15)Estimates of disability prevalence in Mongolia tend to be underreported, especially among older people, girls, and women, thus leaving a substantial number of PWDs without the necessary services and protection. Early identification of disability is ... -
Green Energy Finance in Australia and New Zealand
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2018-05-15)We explore the history and current status of green energy finance in Australia and New Zealand. Although both countries have enviable renewable energy resources with a 100% renewable mix considered feasible, the two countries present highly contrasting ... -
ASEAN Focus Mar/Apr 2018
(ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, 2018-04-30)ASEAN FOCUS is a bimonthly publication providing concise analyses and perspectives on ASEAN matters. -
Beijing BRI-nging Back the Silk Road
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2018-04-30)Multilateral Matters is the quarterly publication of the Centre for Multilateralism Studies (CMS), analysing the most recent developments regarding multilateralism by our team. It covers articles on relevant economic and political issues as well as ... -
Labour migration as complementary pathways for refugees in the Asia-Pacific
(Lowy Institute For International Policy, 2018-04-30)This working paper looks at current legal labour migration schemes in the Asia-Pacific region and examines if any can be opened to humanitarian migrants who may otherwise become targets for migrant smugglers and/or human traffickers. It collects and ... -
How Much Does Azerbaijan Really Earn from Higher Oil Prices?
(Center for Economic and Social Development, 2018-04-30)Fiscal revenues of carbohydrogen rich Azerbaijan is severely dependent on sales of oil, oil products and natural gas. From this point of view the change of oil prices in the global markets is considered as the main indicator for estimating the financial ... -
The Impact of Monetary and Tax Policy on Income Inequality in Japan
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2018-04-30)This paper assesses the effects of the most recent monetary policy behavior of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) (in particular, zero interest rate policy and negative interest rate policy) and Japanese tax policy on income inequality in this country during the ... -
A Framework to Study the Role of Structural Transformation in Productivity Growth and Regional Convergence
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2018-04-30)We show that 𝜎 -convergence in regional productivity growth can be approximated by 𝜎 -convergence in sectoral productivity growth and 𝜎 -convergence in structural transformation-led productivity growth. Applying this framework to Japanese prefecture-level ... -
Resource regionalism in the Middle East and North Africa: Rich lands, neglected people
(Brookings India, 2018-04-30)This paper refers to this phenomenon as “resource regionalism.” While the term “resource nationalism” is used to refer to a state’s efforts to gain control over natural resources from foreign firms, resource regionalism refers to local demands in ...