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Download or read book Review of Developments in Transport and Communications in the ESCAP Region, 1996-2001 written by United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and published by United Nations Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication provides a review of progress made in the transport sector in the ESCAP region since 1996. Over this period, the development of roads, railways, shipping, ports, inland waterways and the air transport sector has shown significant though uneven, progress in the region. While the financial crisis of 1977-1998 has to a degree eased the strains on transport infrastructure to meet rapidly rising demand, the increasing scarcity of financial resources appears to have accelerated institutional changes and changes in infrastructure financing.