Flagship Study Update

Conclusions from the Third Workshop, held in Beijing, on Infrastructure and Regional Cooperation Seamless Asia: Infrastructure for Sustainable and Integrated Development.

• Address the role and significance of regional infrastructure, including the need for and spillover effects caused by regional infrastructure projects;
• Re-estimate investment requirements for infrastructure from 2009 to 2020;
• Identify impact of current global financial crisis on infrastructure investment in Asia and its implications for national and regional projects;
• Identify distribution of costs and benefits by regional infrastructure across different countries as well as different groups of people within a country, and suggest best practices for designing and implementing regional projects;
• Address dynamics of a transnational infrastructure network in connection with cross-border economic corridors;
• Maximize regional infrastructure’s long-term positive impacts (e.g., poverty reduction and trade growth) and mitigate its negative impacts;
• Draw a policy roadmap for reducing trade and logistics costs, particularly for landlocked and archipelago countries;
• Examine and suggest regional coordination mechanisms, institutional instruments, and nature of governmental commitments in developing regional infrastructure;
• Recommend the role of multilateral institutions in coordinating inter-governmental actions and policies on infrastructure;
• Examine financing modalities and suggest new schemes for efficient financing of regional projects.

View background information on the third workshop for the Flagship Study.