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1 online resource (308) |
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Cover -- Table of Contents -- Countries Covered by This Study -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Executive Summary -- 1. The Infrastructure Challenge -- The economic story -- The spatial and demographic story -- The environmental story -- The political story -- The funding story -- Annex 1: Estimation of infrastructure needs -- 2. Inclusive Development -- Development, inclusiveness, and infrastructure -- What is so different about infrastructure anyway? -- Connecting growth, poverty reduction, and investment through infrastructure -- Making the links: Infrastructure, trade, and logistics -- Focus on Vietnam: Infrastructure and inclusive development -- 3. Coordination -- Infrastructure is hard to do -- The "high-flying geese" theory of infrastructure -- Coordinating infrastructure levels -- Coordinating infrastructure through subnational government -- Coordinating urban infrastructure -- The geese catching up: Four snapshots -- From coordination to accountability and risk management -- Spotlight 1. Coordination and a tale of three cities: Mass Rapid Transit in Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, and Manila -- 4. Accountability and Risk Management -- When accountability and risk management fail -- Mechanisms to strengthen accountability -- Risk-sharing, accountability, and managing government support -- Concluding remarks -- Spotlight 2. Learning how to share risk: The case of Partnerships Victoria -- Spotlight 3. Consumer participation, regulators, and accountability -- 5. The Way Forward -- Spotlight 4. The way forward in Indonesia and the Philippines -- Appendix A. Statistical Annex: Infrastructure Indicators -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Boxes -- 1 Infrastructure and the Millennium Development Goals -- 1.1 The demographic dividend -- 1.2 Infrastructure challenges in the Pacific Island countries: A case apart -- 1.3 Emerging urban infrastructure gaps in East Asia -- 1.4 Indications of the high cost of environmental pollution in China -- 1.5 Strategic environmental assessments: The Bali urban infrastructure project -- 1.6 What about efficiency? -- 1.7 So why didn't the private sector solve East Asia's infrastructure problems? -- 1.8 Risk, return, and private investment in East Asian infrastructure -- 2.1 Inclusive development with Chinese characteristics -- 2.2 Infrastructure and the Millennium Development Goals -- 2.3 The importance of infrastructure in particular poverty reduction programs varies -- 2.4 Inclusive development on a regional scale: Opportunities for landlocked Lao PDR -- 2.5 East Asia's logistics challenge"country differences -- 2.6 Integration of ports and land transport networks in Korea -- 2.7 Inclusive development: Transport access for the disabled -- 3.1 Poorly coordinated planning and finance in the Vietnamese roads sector -- 3.2 Infrastructure and fiscal space"arguments and counterarguments -- 3.3 Urban management in Vietnam -- 3.4 "Pork-Barrel" interventions in infrastructure in the Philippines -- 3.5 Indonesia's renegotiated power purchase agreements -- 3.6 Coordination from the bottom up in Indonesia: Community-driven development programs -- 3.7 Coordinating local government infrastructure, macroeconomic stability, and urban land use -- 3.8 Vision, inf |
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Much of East Asia continues to grow rapidly, driven to a considerable extent by China. Urbanization is proceeding at pace. Demand for infrastructure services is increasing massively, particularly in cities. Much of the demand comes from the newly urbanized poor. Infrastructure has to meet their needs, but has also to continue to provide the underpinnings for the region's growth. The complexity of responding to these demands is greater than ever, and the cost of getting things wrong very high. Poorly conceived infrastructure investments today would have a huge environmental, economic, and social impact - and be very costly to fix later. Neglecting the infrastructure needs of people remaining in poor parts of East Asia - particularly in rural areas, and in isolated countries of the region; and failing to include them in growth, would also be costly, in human and political terms. This study is about East Asia, and it's about infrastructure. It's about poverty and growth, and it's about transport, water, sanitation, power, and telecommunications - both the infrastructure, and the infrastructure services. Infrastructure is only one part of the development challenge, but its impacts are among the most important. Connecting East Asia looks at the role that infrastructure has played in supporting East Asia's growth and looks ahead at what the challenges are for the future, and how to approach them |
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Infrastructure (Economics) -- East Asia
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Economic history.
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Economic policy.
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Infrastructure (Economics)
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East Asia -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040528
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East Asia -- Economic policy
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East Asia.
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Electronic book
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Japan Bank for International Cooperation.
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World Bank.
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