En Côte d’Ivoire, où la croissance économique se poursuit, l’urbanisation rapide et l’augmentation de la population devraient conduire le pays à entamer d’importants chantiers de modernisation des infrastructures de transport et des infrastructures urbaines, selon un nouveau rapport de la Banque Mondiale publié fin février. De son côté, le gouvernement ivoirien soutient plusieurs initiatives destinées à combler les insuffisances en la matière.
Inadequate infrastructure has long been a challenge for Indonesia, the world’s largest archipelagic state. With more than 17,000 islands and a population of around 265m, it is probably the most complicated country in the world in terms of logistics. Since President Joko Widodo was inaugurated, transport and infrastructure investment has become...
The aviation sector is experiencing rapid growth worldwide, propelled by booming tourism industries, lower air fares and the push for greater connectivity in an increasingly globalised economy. Middle-class expansion has also fuelled air travel, as more people are able to afford flights for holidays or business travel. According to Boeing,...
An estimated 4m people commute from Greater Jakarta into the city centre for work every day. Public transport has not matched the capital’s rapid growth in recent decades, leading to its international notoriety as a congested mega-city. With Jakarta representing about a fifth of all economic activity in Indonesia, congestion costs the economy...
If infrastructure development has not matched the rate of economic growth in Java, outside of the most populous island the challenges are even starker. As a result, the administration of President Joko Widodo has increasingly focused on building major roads outside of Java – namely the Trans-Kalimantan, TransPapua and Trans-Sumatra toll road...
This year 2018 marked the first anniversary of ASEAN’s inaugural bond issue under the organisation’s common Green Bond Standards (GBS) – a RM2bn ($480m) issue by the Malaysian government-controlled asset manager, Permodalan Nasional. Since then, the green bond market in Asia Pacific has won many accolades, with 2018 seeing the region record...
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