Asia’s Emerging Economies Confront Massive Investment Needs for Transportation and to Battle Poverty, Climate Change

Bloomberg Markets reports, “Emerging economies across [Asia] will need to invest as much as $26 trillion on building everything from transport networks to clean water through 2030 to maintain growth, eradicate poverty and offset climate change” according to a February 27 report issued by the Asian Development Bank, which notes that $8.4 trillion of the total will be needed for transportation projects.