Philippe,

Si vous n’arrivez pas à trouver les éléments sur le Net concernant l’ACCORD DE PRINCIPE, non encore formalisé dans une structure officielle précise, je vous invite déjà à suivre ce lien où vous trouverez l’article di très sérieux et réputé « Taipei Times » en date du 3 juillet 2007 sur le sujet abordé.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2007/07/03/2003367926

Pour comprendre la génèse du projet annoncé le 3 juillet, je me permets de vous adresser en copie-collé cet article du même « Taipei Times » en date du 26 juin 2007, page 10, rubrique « World Business » qui vous éclairera un peu plus et mieux sur le sujet.

Espérant avoir apporté les sources que vous souhaitiez et qu’elles satisferont votre légitime curiosité,

Bien cordialement vôtre,

ADB urges infrastructure investment `ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL’ : A senior Asian Development Bank official said Asia will need about US$3 trillion in physical infrastructure over the next 10 years to maintain growth

AP, SINGAPORE Tuesday, Jun 26, 2007, Page 10

Asia should use some of the US$3 trillion lying idle in foreign exchange coffers for sorely needed infrastructure projects that are crucial for the region’s development, a senior Asian Development Bank (ADB) official said yesterday.

« Foreign exchange reserves have to be first of all used exactly as reserves — to protect your currency, » Rajat M. Nag told the Associated Press.

« But beyond a level you have to make sure that those reserves are made best use of, » he said.

The ADB has been talking to Asian governments about this issue, said Nag, the managing director general of the Manila-based development lending institution.

The biggest reserves of about US$1.16 trillion are held by China. Japan has US$890 billion, Taiwan US$268 billion and India US$205 billion. Asian foreign exchange reserves account for 62 percent of the world’s reserves.

Nag, who earlier attended a conference of the World Economic Forum on East Asia, said Asia will need about US$3 trillion in physical infrastructure — highways, power projects, drinking water projects, airports — over the next 10 years.

Infrastructure investment remains low in most developing countries including India, which spends only about 4 percent of its gross domestic product on it compared to 9 percent in China.

The ADB, which lends about US$7 billion to US$8 billion a year, cannot meet that shortfall in the demand where it is most needed — India, Vietnam, Indonesia and Pakistan.

« You name it. Any of these countries that are growing, and growing very well, have a huge infrastructure deficit, » he said.

Nag said foreign exchange reserves need not be used for « risky investments, but certainly in good solid infrastructure projects. »

« It has to be done with due care and attention to the design of the project. But yes, one way for Asia to use its reserves more productively is in infrastructure in the region, » Nag said.

Nag said infrastructure investments were « absolutely critical to continue the momentum of growth » in Asia, whose collective economy grew 8.3 percent last year — the highest in a decade.

If this growth continues, only 2 percent of the region’s nearly 4 billion people would be living under US$1 a day compared with 18 percent now, Nag said.

But if the development does not reach the poor people, the poverty rate would be 10 percent, Nag said.

« Elimination of poverty in Asia is not preordained. There has to be growth and there has to be inclusive growth, » he said, adding that rising income disparity is the biggest challenge facing the region.

« There are two faces of Asia. One which is growing very well and you see it in the glitzy towers in Singapore or Mumbai or Jakarta ; and the other Asia which is falling behind. Those two faces have to converge, » Nag said.