Infrastructure and Regional Cooperation
Updated 28 August 2007
From late 2006 ADBI has started to give special emphasis to research activities about Infrastructure and Regional Cooperation. Topics within this new specialization include studies of cross-regional
interest, i.e., research work with relevance for several countries or
sub-regions in Asia and the Pacific, relating to any of the main areas of infrastructure management
that are currently key challenges in ADB's developing member countries. Thus topics such as
comparative studies of overall policy, regulatory regimes, governance and management, pricing,
infrastructure investment and financing, and infrastructure's role in reducing trade costs all fall within the broad coverage of this overall theme.
The box below shows an indicative list of the types of work which ADBI is interested
in supporting under this specialization.
Box: Infrastructure and Regional Cooperation: Indicative List of Topics
- Do infrastructure bottlenecks hamper trade and investment in Asia?
- Infrastructure in Asia: Where will the money come from?
- Does infrastructure determine production chains across Asia?
- FDI in infrastructure in Asia.
- Infrastructure and human needs: forecasts of the demand for infrastructure.
- How do structures of infrastructure markets vary across the region?
- Regulatory practices: lessons from the rest of the world.
- Regulatory practices: different approaches in the Asia-Pacific region.
- Pricing issues and subsidies.
- How do infrastructure pricing policies affect national budgets?
- Maintenance in infrastructure; what can be done about neglect of maintenance?
- Equity and poverty aspects: how to ensure that infrastructure benefits the poor.
- Governance and management in infrastructure.
- What are the prospects for private-public partnerships?
- What can be done to provide infrastructure for rural development?
- Financial sector infrastructure development.
- Infrastructure in small island countries.
- Tendering and infrastructure across Asia: how can policies be improved?
- Macroeconomic issues: How growth increases demand for infrastructure; How supply bottlenecks in infrastructure hamper overall growth.
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Research activities in this specialization will not be conducted to the exclusion
of other topics. Work in this area might account for perhaps 30-40% of ADBI resources.
As such, this would allow appropriate room for research on ADBI's four
main priority themes to continue.
Where appropriate, an emphasis on Infrastructure for Regional Cooperation will be introduced
into capacity building and training activities as well. Visiting researchers will also be encouraged
to work in this specialization.
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