Cover
Table of Contents
Figures
Tables
Preface
Abbreviations
Tak-Wing Ngo and Eva P.W. Hung
Figure 1.1 Map of OBOR
Table 1.1 Contending modes of connectivity
Willem van Schendel
Figure 2.1 A section of Asian Highway 1
Figure 2.2 The ‘Indo Myanmar Friendship Gate’ marks the border crossing between Moreh (India) and Tamu (Myanmar)
Figure 2.3 Indian forces patrolling Asian Highway 1 in an armoured vehicle, Manipur (India), 2012
Figure 2.4 Crossing the China-Myanmar border through a gap in the border fence, Yunnan (China), 2010
Figure 2.6 Jade mined in Myanmar offered for sale in a Yunnan (China) border town, 2010
Figure 2.8 Pushing a load, freshly arrived from Myanmar, deeper into Indian territory, 2012
Figure 2.10 A Myanmar trader with merchandise in Manipur (India), 2012
Figure 2.12 Cross-border shoppers buying household goods in Yunnan (China), 2010; note the bilingual signs in Chinese and Burmese
Figure 2.13 Chinese timber truck leaving the Myanmar border, 2010
Hasan H. Karrar
Figure 3.1 For centuries a branch of the Silk Road passed through the north Hunza village of Misgar
Figure 3.2 The Afiyatabad Commercial Centre (2700m) is located on the Karakoram Highway, adjacent to the Sost dry port that opened in 2006
Figure 3.3 Returning Chinese containers passing through Afiyatabad after unloading their cargo at the Sost dry port
Figure 3.4 New construction in Afiyatabad, a border market along the Pakistan-China border
Samuel Berthet
Vaijayanti Khare
Figure 5.1 Ladakh as a highland connect
Arjun Chapagain
Table 6.1 Export quantity and export value of MAPs, 2011/2012 – 2014/2015 (%)
Figure 6.2 Export value of MAPs, 2011/2012 – 2014/2015
Table 6.2 The formal economy of MAPs sector, 2011/2012 – 2014/2015 (in NRP)
Figure 6.3 Comparison of present annual export value with other studies
Jelena Gledić
Table 7.1 Economic characteristics of the Western Balkans, 2015
Table 7.2 Estimates of shadow economy in the Western Balkans
Figure 7.1 Possible points of entry of the New Silk Road into Europe
Olga Y. Adams
Ivan Zuenko
Table 9.2 Imports to Kazakhstan from China, EU and other non-EAEU countries, 2008-2016 (USD million)
Table 9.3 Trends in economic activities, mid-2015 (%)
Table 9.4 Export of Chinese clothing, footwear and leather goods according to Chinese statistics, 2014-2016 (USD million)
Figure 9.1 Divergence in customs statistics of China and its trade partners, 2016
Susann Handke
Gordon Mathews
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