Transport
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Modern transportation systems link regions and improve the quality of life in Asia's megacities. This page tracks the latest ideas and trends in this fast-moving field.
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China's One Belt One Road: Has the European Union Missed the Train?
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2016-03-07)
This Policy Report focuses on the overland routes that connect China to Europe via Central Asia and it aims to answer the question whether the European Union (EU) should engage China in the One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative. The expansion of the OBOR ...
Facilitating India-Pakistan Trade through the Land Route
(Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2016-05-15)
Improvements in the land route between India and Pakistan can help lower transaction costs which can play in important role in realizing the trade potential between the two countries. Connecting India and Pakistan by the land route offers gains not ...
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The Impact of Trade and Technology on Skills in Viet Nam
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2017-08-15)Market-oriented reforms, such as liberalizing trade and encouraging foreign direct investment, can generate large efficiency gains for a country. However, there is also concern that lower-skilled workers are increasingly being replaced by technology ... -
Public Private Partnership (PPP) in Latin America's Infrastructure Market and Policy Suggestions for Korea
(Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2017-07-15)Traditionally Korean construction firms have actively invested in Middle Eastern countries. However, the centralization of investment in the region is not sustainable for Korea since the economy of the region is vulnerable to oil price fluctuations and ... -
International Single Window Environment: Prospects and Challenges
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2017-06-30)Efforts of various international institutions have supported implementation of national/regional single windows and the next logical step would be to internationalize and make them interoperable to allow for greater collaborative information sharing. ... -
Trade and Transport Facilitation Monitoring Mechanism: Baseline Study in Bangladesh
(Asian Development Bank, 2017-06-30)The establishment of a Trade and Transport Facilitation Monitoring Mechanism (TTFMM) is important for a country to take stock, identify bottlenecks, and prioritize recommendations for the implementation of trade facilitation measures. A baseline study ... -
Trans-Pacific Partnership Rules for Digital Trade in Asia
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2017-06-30)Digital trade is upending the way consumers and companies do business. Digital trade and e-commerce have become major drivers of economic development by enhancing productivity and lowering costs of trade in goods. But government policies have been slow ... -
Digital Trade in Europe and Central Asia
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2017-06-30)The Internet greatly increases firms’ potential to produce new goods and service for new markets. The Internet is also having a dramatic impact on services, especially in the retail, trade and finance sectors, by enabling firms to digitize their products ... -
The Impacts of Roll-On/Roll-Off Transport System in the Philippines
(Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2017-06-30)It is well recognized in the literature that a country’s transport system plays a central role in its development. In this paper, we show the economic impacts of improvements in the transport system by studying experience of the Philippines with the ... -
The Impact of the TPP on Trade Between Member Countries: A Text-As-Data Approach
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2017-06-30)This paper proposes a new method to predict the impact of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) on trade and welfare taking the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement as a case study. Relying on a novel dataset of treaty texts covering all trade ... -
Modeling Eldercare by Children and Children-in-Law: The Role of Marriage Institutions
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2017-06-30)Informal eldercare is often supplied by family members, more so in Asia than in the West. Children and their parents as well as members of adjacent generations linked by marriage (in-laws) are modeled as self-interested agents offering or responding ... -
Digital Trade Facilitation: Paperless Trade in Regional Trade Agreements
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2017-06-30)Digital trade facilitation refers to the application of modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) to simplify and automate international trade procedures. It is rapidly becoming essential to maintaining trade competitiveness and enabling ...