Infrastructure development in the Pacific region / edited by Akira Kohsaka. - Oxon : Routledge, 2007. - xviii, 318 p. : ill ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of figures p. ix List of tables p. xi Contributors p. xv Preface p. xvii 1 Overview: Infrastructure development in the Pacific region Akira Kohsaka p. 1 2 Australia Tony Makin and Satya Paul p. 21 3 Canada Jim Storey p. 47 4 China Guoqiang Yue p. 70 5 Hong Kong Kwong Yiu Tang p. 89 6 Japan Akira Kohsaka and Naoyuki Yoshino and Masaki Nakahigashi p. 112 7 Korea Jaebong Ro p. 135 8 Malaysia Vijayakumari Kanapathy p. 156 9 New Zealand Douglas Steel p. 177 10 The Philippines Cayetano W. Paderanga, Jr p. 218 11 Singapore Tan Khee Giap and Soon Lee Ying p. 250 12 The United States Robert Dekle and Jeffrey B. Nugent p. 278 Index.

In the past, undersupply of public infrastructure was blamed for low productivity growth in the United States in the 1970s, while greater private sector participation was emphasized for infrastructure development in the Asia-Pacific region before the Asian Economic Crisis in the 1990s. This book looks at the current economic situation and the state of infrastructure on both sides of the Pacific.

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Infrastructure (Economics)
Economic development.
Economic history--1945-
Management and Business Studies.

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