Tags : Infrastructure and Economic Development

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Synergize GBA Forum 2025
As a key national initiative, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) has emerged as one of the most competitive city clusters of China. This year marks the 45th anniversary of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone and the 15th anniversary of the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/talk/2025/synergize-gba-forum-2025
Synergize GBA Forum 2024
The event marked the successful conclusion on 16 August 2024. Find out more about the event highlights. Presenting for the fourth year in a row, the Synergize GBA Forum aims to bring together a network of resources, knowledge and insights among all sectors while creating long-term sustainable value in the GBA. ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/talk/2024/ey-synergize-gba-forum-2024
Roads and Loans
Does financing respond to changes in productive opportunities, even for the world’s poor? We answer this question by examining the response of private bank financing to a rural infrastructure program in India, which brought road access to unconnected villages. The program prioritized roads for villages above ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/iems-working-papers/sumit-agarwal-abhiroop-mukherjee-roads-and-loans
Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia
Watch   About the event In Rivers of Iron, David Lampton, Selina Ho and Cheng-Chwee Kuik examine one aspect of the China’s Belt and Road Initiative: its effort to create an intercountry railway system connecting China and its seven Southeast Asian neighbours (Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2020/lampton-ho-kuik-railroads-and-chinese-power-in-southeast-asia
Green and Smart or Black and Clumsy ? Examining the role of Chinese investors in ASEAN's sustainable development
Studies on the Belt and Road Initiative and its impact on the sustainable development of host countries lack empirical foundations. This research aims to contribute to the gap in the literature by focusing on Chinese outward investments in energy and smart city solutions development. Our research project is divided in ...
https://iems.ust.hk/research/project/2019/angela-tritto-dini-sejko-yujia-he-green-smart-black-clumsy-chinese-investors-asean-sustainable-development
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