Infrastructure
Theme curator: Yoshino, Naoyuki
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Think20 policywriters are backing the finance ministers’ recent endorsement of the G20 Principles for Quality Infrastructure Investment. Governments and developers worldwide are looking to them for better ways to build and renovate highways, railways, bridges and dams. This must-read book from ADBIPress provides real answers on how to attract private financing. And Mitsubishi Research Institute and ADBI have just compiled latest knowhow from worldwide megaprojects for their Principles of Infrastructure.
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Reconnecting Asia is mapping major infra linkages that are rapidly reshaping the political economy and connectivity of Asia and the Pacific, and Indian ocean region.
Asia-Pacific Research Exchange on infra provides insights and roundups from financial analysts on project bonds and regional markets.
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Sustaining Transit Investment in Asia’s Cities: A Beneficiary-Funding and Land Value Capture Perspective
(Asian Development Bank, 2019-04-15)
This report explains how proven methods of land value capture can help fund sustained urban transit investment in developing countries in Asia. It provides a primer on the importance of land value capture in urban planning and growth and identifies ...
Quality Infrastructure Investment: Ways to Increase the Rate of Return for Infrastructure Investments
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019-03-15)
Private–public partnerships in infrastructure have been advocated for many years. Investors currently receive a low rate of return on infrastructure investment. This is because the main sources of revenue from infrastructure investment are user charges. ...
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NSC Highlights May 2019
(ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, 2019-05-30)NSC Highlights is our quarterly newsletter to showcase the vast array of work by our scholars from a variety of disciplines such as history, art history, linguistics and archaeology. This variety of disciplines attests to the NSC’s broad mission. ... -
Frames: News, Thoughts, Updates: May 2019
(Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, 2019-05-30)Frames is a monthly newsletter produced by the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia. Each edition covers news, thoughts and updates involving ASEAN and East Asia. -
Realizing Education for All in the Digital Age
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019-05-23)Education is a key driver for sustainable development (UNESCO 2018). The entire global community has been determined to ensure that all human beings can fulfill their potential in dignity and equality; to protect the planet so that it can support the ... -
Japanese Infrastructure Investment in Southeast Asia
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2019-05-15)This paper analyses the outlook for Japan’s infrastructure investment in Southeast Asia as the region has become the primary destination for Japan’s Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in recent years. Section 2 reviews how the construction industry in ... -
Connecting the Dots: Countering Violent Extremism through Corporate Social Responsibility
(Sustainable Development Policy Institute, 2019-05-15)The study discusses the state of violent extremism in Pakistan and efforts to counter it through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). In the backdrop of terrorist attacks that incurred financial and lives losses, the study highlights as to how it has ... -
US-China Trade War: Potential Trade and Investment Spill-overs into Malaysia
(ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, 2019-05-15)The trade conflict between the US and China has the potential to affect Malaysia’s trade with both countries as both are important trading partners. The imposition of safeguard tariffs by the US will affect Malaysia’s solar exports to the US though its ... -
Inclusive Growth in India – Learning from Best Practices of Selected Countries
(Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2019-05-15)Globally, there is a clamour for creating a more inclusive world and India is also a frontrunner. Government of India is fully committed to its resolve towards achieving inclusive growth. To achieve this goal, efforts are being made to harmonise the ... -
Strategy for Financial Inclusion of Informal Economy Workers
(Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2019-05-15)Access to finance and financial inclusion has been identified as a key enabler in the modern society. It provides for basic economic security of the family and is instrumental in preventing families from falling back into poverty. The jan-dhan account ... -
A Station Location Identification Model for an Integrated Interoperable High-Speed Rail System
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019-05-15)Integrated interoperable rail systems facilitate high speed rail (HSR) train movement on conventional intercity lines, and vice versa. Hence, for such rail systems, it is preferred that HSR stations are located at existing intercity rail stations. ... -
Modeling the Spatiotemporal Urban Spillover Effect of High-Speed Rail Infrastructure Development
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019-05-15)The study introduces and applies the concept of spillover effects to high-speed rail development to formulate the economic impact on increasing the regional tax revenue. The previous study covered JR-Kyushu’s development of the Kyushu Shinkansen ...