Infrastructure’s Role in Lowering Asia’s Trade Costs

Building for Trade

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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This book analyses and draws policy implications from infrastructure's central role in lowering Asia's trade costs. Infrastructure is shown to be a cost-effective means of lowering trade costs and thereby promoting regional growth and integration. This book combines thematic and country studies, while breaking new ground in quantifying infrastructure's impact on Asia's trade costs. The contributors examine empirical estimates of Asia's trade costs and infrastructure's influence on those costs while also contributing to a better understanding of the region's logistics challenges. The book includes interesting case studies of rapid growth and congestion (in PRC), inland transportation challenges (India), port competition in an archipelago (Indonesia) and transportation modal switching as value-added rises (Malaysia) that are policy- and project-relevant in their own right. The analysis and policy implications in this book will be of interest to trade and infrastructure policy-makers and academics at graduate and higher levels involved in economic development or Asian studies, as well as the broader development community.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2009-01-30
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieADBI series on Asian Economic Integration and Cooperation
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781848441620

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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.'