Connecting East Asia : A New Framework for Infrastructure

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• ISBN13: 9780821361627
• ISBN10: 0821361627
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2006-06-30
• Publisher: Asian Development Bank

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Asian Development Bank is a multilateral development finance institution dedicated to reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific.

Table of Contents

Countries Covered by This Study	xi
Foreword	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
Abbreviations and Acronyms	xvii
Executive Summary	xxi
The Infrastructure Challenge	1	(48)
The economic story	4	(8)
The spatial and demographic story	12	(8)
The environmental story	20	(4)
The political story	24	(5)
The funding story	29	(14)
Annex 1: Estimation of infrastructure needs	43	(6)
Inclusive Development	49	(26)
Development, inclusiveness, and infrastructure	49	(2)
What is so different about infrastructure anyway?	51	(3)
Connecting growth, poverty reduction, and investment through infrastructure	54	(7)
Making the links: Infrastructure, trade, and logistics	61	(7)
Focus on Vietnam: Infrastructure and inclusive development	68	(7)
Coordination	75	(38)
Infrastructure is hard to do	75	(1)
The ``high-flying geese'' theory of infrastructure	76	(4)
Coordinating infrastructure levels	80	(4)
Coordinating infrastructure through subnational government	84	(4)
Coordinating urban infrastructure	88	(2)
The geese catching up: Four snapshots	90	(17)
From coordination to accountability and risk management	107	(1)
Spotlight 1. Coordination and a tale of three cities: Mass Rapid Transit in Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, and Manila	108	(5)
Accountability and Risk Management	113	(46)
When accountability and risk management fail	114	(4)
Mechanisms to strengthen accountability	118	(20)
Risk-sharing, accountability, and managing government support	138	(11)
Concluding remarks	149	(1)
Spotlight 2. Learning how to share risk: The case of Partnerships Victoria	150	(4)
Spotlight 3. Consumer participation, regulators, and accountability	154	(5)
The Way Forward	159	(18)
Spotlight 4. The way forward in Indonesia and the Philippines	170	(7)
Appendix A. Statistical Annex: Infrastructure Indicators	177	(40)
Notes	217	(12)
Bibliography	229	(12)
Index	241