Infrastructure's Role in Lowering Asia's Trade Costs: Building for Trade - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1848441622 ISBN 13 : 9781848441620

Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848441622
• ISBN 13: 9781848441620
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Brooks Douglas H., Hummels David
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible