Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53742 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
ADBI Working Paper No. 123
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo
Abstract: 
International trade has played an essential role in Asia's remarkable growth, development, and integration in recent decades. Infrastructure, both hard and soft, has played an integral part in facilitating that trade, primarily through reducing the associated transaction costs. Regional coordination and cooperation can help to reduce negative externalities from trade and to capitalize more fully on positive spillover effects. This study explores the nexus between Asia's trade flows and patterns, trade costs and how they are influenced by infrastructure development, and the role of regional cooperation in facilitating trade's contribution to economic integration. A virtuous circle between growth, infrastructure investment, trade expansion, and regional integration is elucidated.
JEL: 
F15
F13
O19
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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