Linking Asia’s Trade, Logistics, and Infrastructure
Published By: ADBI on eSS | Published Date: December, 28 , 2008Infrastructure services, from both hard and soft infrastructure, play a vital role in facilitating
Asia’s export-led growth by keeping the prices of delivered goods in export markets
competitive. Efficient infrastructure services lower transaction costs, raise value added, and
increase potential profitability while also increasing and expanding linkages to global supply
chains and distribution networks for producers. Asia’s trade patterns are characterized by a
high degree of intraregional trade, particularly in parts and components for geographically
fragmented production networks. This is both in response to, and with implications for,
further infrastructure development. Logistics services play a key role and the challenges of
providing efficient logistical support rise as countries move into progressively more complex
and higher-value manufacturing, and as production processes become increasingly
fragmented. [ADBI Working Paper 128]
Author(s): Douglas H. Brooks | Posted on: Oct 28, 2010 | Views(927) | Download (140)