This book addresses the key challenges of balancing economic growth, poverty alleviation, and environmental protection in the development of major physical infrastructure, ranging from transport to energy.

Autorentext
WILLIAM ASCHER Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics at Claremont McKenna College, USA, and the Director of the Pacific Basin Research Center at Soka University of America.
CORINNE KRUPP Associate Professor of the Practice of Public Policy at Duke University's Terry Sanford School of Public Policy, USA, and serves as the Director of Graduate Studies of the Sanford School's Master in International Development Policy.

Inhalt
Rethinking Infrastructure Development; W.Ascher & C.Krupp Distributional Implications of Alternative; W.Ascher & C.Krupp Beyond Privatization; R.Little Infrastructure Development in India and China; J.Kim & R.Nangia Physical Infrastructure as a Challenge for Far-sighted Thinking and Action; W.Ascher Transit Transformations; R.Cervero Urban Reclamation and Regeneration in Seoul, South Korea; R.Cervero Electrifying Rural Areas; C.Krupp Infrastructure and Inclusive Development through 'Free, Prior and Informed Consent' of Indigenous People; R.Fernholz