Format:
1 online resource (312 pages)
ISBN:
9780821361634
Content:
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.
Content:
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.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821361627
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780821361627
Additional Edition:
Print version Connecting East Asia : A New Framework for Infrastructure
Language:
English
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