Infrastructure’s Role in Lowering Asia’s Trade Costs

Edited by Douglas H. Brooks, Australian APEC Study Centre, RMIT University, Australia and David Hummels, Professor of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, US

• Contents:ForewordMasahiro Kawai1. Infrastructure’s Role in Lowering Asia’s Trade Costs Douglas H. Brooks2. Trends in Asian Trade: Implications for Transport Infrastructure and Trade Costs David Hummels3. Trade Infrastructure and Trade Costs: A Study of Selected Asian Ports Jon Haveman, Adina Ardelean and Christopher Thornberg4. Empirical Estimates of Transportation Costs: Options for Enhancing Asia’s Trade Prabir De5. Port Competitiveness: A Case Study of Semarang and Surabaya, Indonesia Arianto A. Patunru, Nanda Nurridzki and Rivayani6. Infrastructure and trade costs in Malaysia: The importance of FDI and Exports Tham Siew Yean, Evelyn Devadason and Loke Wai Heng7. Infrastructure Development in a Fast-Growing Economy: The People’s Republic of China Liqiang Ma and Jinkang Zhang8. Trade Transportation Costs in South Asia: An Empirical Investigation Prabir DeIndex

'This edited volume of eight insightful essays offers an excellent immediate overview of the emerging dynamics within the [Southeast Asian] region. . . This book presents a fascinating overview of the manner in which capitalism continues to transform Southeast Asia's transport infrastructure. . . a fascinating and invaluable accumulation of data, which future historians and social scientists can turn back to and usefully employ when the history of the first part of the Asian twenty-first century is eventually being written.'