Emerging and developing markets are competing to attract outside investment and playing an even greater role in the global economy.
The Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) works to identify effective development strategies and improve the capacity for sound development in ADB member countries. Here is a selection of their work related to four areas the Reconnecting Asia Project covers: climate change and sustainability, energy, regional integration, and infrastructure finance. This page will be updated as new research becomes available.
Lord George Robertson, former Secretary General of NATO and Chairman of the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) Foundation discusses “one of the gravest and most preventable security risks that faces people – the risk of death and disability on the world’s roads,” in a special message for the launch of CSIS’s new Reconnecting Asia report, “Safety on the New Silk Road.”
Quotes and Quotas is a weekly digest of phrases and facts that help explain Asia’s infrastructure push.
It might be the world’s deadliest, least known conflict. The latest available figures from the World Health Organization show that road accidents claimed at least 1.25 million lives in 2013, more than twice the death toll from the war in Syria. Nor is the carnage confined to far-off lands. It is happening in countries from America to Australia, and increasingly, in developing Asia.
For developing economies like Kazakhstan, Asia’s infrastructure push offers opportunities to improve road safety.