Forthcoming Publications

A Decade of Developments

This volume represents the first in a series of publications of ADBI's Annual Conference. Held in December 2007 and entitled “A Decade of Developments,” the 2007 conference marked the tenth anniversary of ADBI and, as such, attempted to combine a retrospection of the organization's history along with an anticipatory look at potential issues for its future. The Asia and Pacific region has seen many developments since the Institute's inception in 1997 and the diversity of chapters contained within the volume reflects this.

When ADBI was founded, several East Asian economies were in the midst of a financial crisis. Over the ten years since that time, Asia has seen not only a remarkable economic renewal, but also substantial growth based on a solid foundation of financial and governance reforms. East Asia has re-emerged as the most dynamic region of the world economy, demonstrating its resilience and robustness. ADBI's own growth has mirrored this dynamism and robustness.

Infrastructure's Role in Lowering Asia's Trade Costs: Building Trade

Infrastructure's Role in Lowering Asia's Trade Costs: Building for Trade analyzes 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, 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 policymakers and academics at graduate and higher levels involved in economic development or Asian studies as well as the broader development community.