ABSTRACT
With a vast landscape, huge population and broad markets, Asia is the region having the most robust economic vitality and growth potential. For the majority of Asian nations, the underdeveloped infrastructure such as railway, highway, bridges, ports, airports and communications severely slows down socioeconomic development. However, the primary cause of such underdevelopment is severely insufficient infrastructure investment. The sobering reality is that the gap for such investment demand is large and the funding provided by the multilateral organisations is limited. Given that the request for funding is vast, the term for implementation is long and revenue is uncertain about infrastructure investment, investment scale from the private sector is relatively small. In line with the above, the excessive deposits of some Asian countries have not been fully utilised, so the funding advantage is not fully leveraged.
