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Cross-Border Transport Visions 2050

This document outlines key questions for a plenary session on visions for cross-border transport in Asia and the Pacific by 2050. The questions focus on potential benefits of regional cooperation, current barriers inhibiting cross-border transport, how to create economic corridors through transport investments, infrastructure needs, legal and institutional reforms needed, and how to address social and environmental issues associated with increased cross-border trade.

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Cross-Border Transport Visions 2050

This document outlines key questions for a plenary session on visions for cross-border transport in Asia and the Pacific by 2050. The questions focus on potential benefits of regional cooperation, current barriers inhibiting cross-border transport, how to create economic corridors through transport investments, infrastructure needs, legal and institutional reforms needed, and how to address social and environmental issues associated with increased cross-border trade.

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11/8/12

Plenary 6: Visions for CrossBorder Transport in 2050

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Key questions!
1. What is the extent of benets for Asia and the Pacic that could materialize from further regional coopera<on and integra<on by the year 2050? 2. What are the current barriers to cross-border transport that are inhibi<ng this vision? 3. How can economic corridors be created through investments in cross-border transport? 4. What investments in physical infrastructure are needed to realize such benets? 5. Apart from physical investments, what are the legal and ins<tu<onal aspects of cross-border transport that require aJen<on? 6. How can social issues (human tracking, spread of HIV/AIDs, road fatali<es, etc.) and environmental issues (illegal logging, trade in endangered species, etc.) be best addressed as cross-border trade is increasingly being promoted?!

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