Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes -- Tables, Figures, and Boxes -- Tables -- 3.1 Structural Increase in Gross Domestic Product Per Capita -- 4.1 Time Cost Matrix -- 4.2 Distance Cost Matrix -- 4.3 Value Matrix -- 4.4 Time Cost Matrix after Investments -- 4.5 Value Cost Matrix after Investments -- 4.6 Gains in Average Income in All Study Countries -- 6.1 North-South and the East-West Economic Corridors, Features -- 6.2 Spatial Data and Statistical Data with Spatial Dimension, An Initial Overview -- 7.1 Data on Passenger and Freight Turnover of All Modes of Transport -- 7.2 Estimated Travel Time by Car Between Central Asian Capitals -- 7.3 Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threat Analysis -- Figures -- 1 A Framework for Evidence-Based Policy Analysis -- A1 South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Region Subdivided into Tiles -- 3.1 The Structure of the Socioeconomic and Spacial Impact Model -- 3.2 The Sequence of Submodels -- 3.3 Region Production Function, Extended Production Function -- 3.4 Regional Production Function, Net Migration Function -- 3.5 Accessibility Problem Index Rail (Estonia 2006) -- 3.6 Accessibility Problem Index Rail (Estonia 2016) -- 3.7 Accessibility Problem Index Rail (Latvia 2006) -- 3.8 Accessibility Problem Index Rail (Latvia 2016) -- 3.9 Accessibility Problem Index Rail (Lithuania 2006) -- 3.10 Accessibility Problem Index Rail (Lithuania 2016) -- 4.1 Depreciation in Value of a Good in Transit -- 4.2 South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Region Subdivided into Tiles -- 4.3 District-Income: Income Growth above Baseline Due to Scenario 2 Investments -- 4.4 District-Income: Income Growth above Scenario 2 due to Scenario 3 Investments -- 4.5 District Income Growth above Baseline Full Aid for Trade Investment Package -- 4.7 Volume of Intertile Trade Overall and By Country.

6.1 Map of Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Corridors -- 6.2 Potential Forest to Non-Forest Conversion Areas, by Scenario -- 6.3 Environmental Risk, by District (Mean Value) -- 6.4 Ecosystem Service Potential as Basic Guidance for Sector Investments. -- 7.1 Central Asia Region Economic Cooperation Corridors -- Boxes -- 7.1 Six Central Asia Region Economic Cooperation Corridors -- Foreword -- Executive Summary -- Abbreviations -- Program -- Profiles -- Chapter 1 How to Make Economic Corridors Work in Asia's Regions? -- Lessons Learned (European Union and South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation) -- Evidence-Based Policy -- Opportunities (Greater Mekong Subregion and Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation) -- Conclusion and Action Plan -- Chapter 2 Economic Corridors Data Case -- Summary -- Background -- Open Data Portals -- Evidence-based Policy Analysis-Data View -- Recommendations -- Case Studies -- Chapter 3 Case Study on European Union Experience -- General Setting: European Union Policy on Infrastructure and Regional Development -- Introduction of Socioeconomic and Spatial Impacts Model -- Two Examples of Use of the Model in Policy Studies -- Introduction -- Strategic Evaluation of Transport Investment Priorities under Structural and Cohesion Funds for the Programming Period 2007-2013 -- Identification of Investment Priorities -- Ex Ante Evaluation of the Trans-European Transport Network Multi-Annual Program 2007-2013 -- Background -- Investment options -- Ex Ante Results for Baltic States -- Introduction -- Results from the Strategic Evaluation -- Overall results for Baltic states -- Results for individual countries -- Estonia -- Latvia -- Lithuania -- Conclusions -- Evidence from Evaluations So Far -- Introduction -- Reflection on European Union Experience in View of Applicability for Asian Development Bank Study.

Chapter 4 Evaluating Investments in Economic Corridor Development: Lessons from the South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Study -- Introduction -- Theoretical Foundations -- Data Representation -- Application to Value Chains -- Results -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Future of Global Value Chains in the Greater Mekong Subregion -- Supply Chain Perspective -- Transformation Trajectory -- Global Value Chains and Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises- Is There a Convergence? -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 6 The Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Corridors- Operationalizing Spatial Planning Tools for Environmentally Sound Corridor Investment -- Background -- Key Economic Characteristics of Selected Corridors -- Overview of Available Data, Data Gaps, and Limitations -- Toward Environmentally Sound Corridor Investments: Two Modeling Applications -- Chapter 7 Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Case Study- Bringing the Economic Corridor in from the Cold? -- Literature and Data Availability Overview: State of the Art and Solutions to Data Limitations -- Presentation and Analysis of Key Economic Characteristics of Road Corridors -- Modeling Investments Scenarios and Strategies for Comprehensive Development of Economic Corridors in Central Asia.