Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53716 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
ADBI Working Paper No. 261
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo
Abstract: 
While bringing positive impacts and benefits, cross-border infrastructure projects face additional challenges relative to national projects. Moreover, such projects involve a variety of technical, regulatory, institutional, and legal factors, and their obstacles constrain the development of cross-border infrastructure projects. This paper argues that proper technical specifications and well-functioning regulatory, institutional and legislative/legal frameworks with clearer lines of oversight are crucial to getting such projects off the ground in the first place and to ensure that they operate properly and reliably while minimizing their environmental impacts. It is pointed out that many issues in theses areas need to be addressed at the national level. The paper concludes that such domestic efforts, coupled with regional frameworks and arrangements wherever necessary, will promote the further development of cross-border infrastructure projects.
JEL: 
O13
Q01
Q43
Q48
Q53
Q54
Q56
Q58
R48
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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