-owned actors. Asia needs investment to improve its infrastructure and carry out technological innovation, but the book argues that …-owned actors. Asia needs investment to improve its infrastructure and carry out technological innovation, but the book argues that …

Population aging is perhaps the single biggest economic and social obstacle confronting Asia's future. The region …

Population aging is perhaps the single biggest economic and social obstacle confronting Asia’s future. The region … policy options for tackling them. -- First, the expert contributors argue, Asia must find ways to sustain rapid economic … growth in the face of less favorable demographics, which implies slower growth of the workforce. Second, they contend, Asia …

"The book documents the evolution of Asia's infrastructure over the past half-century and reviews existing literature … tax financing and mass transit investments on land and property values and infrastructure financing. It then examines Asia … innovation can foster energy infrastructure investments, and the role of bond markets in infrastructure investments. The book …

"Developing Asia's sustained rapid growth has improved general living standards and lifted hundreds of millions of … inequality has worsened over the past two decades collectively account for over 80% of Asia's population. As a result … well as taxes and other fiscal revenues--and inequality in Asia at great depths. On the basis of the analysis, the book …