In order to improve cross-border transportation and logistics in the CAREC countries, at the 18th CAREC Ministerial Conference in Uzbekistan in November 2019, the CAREC Transport Strategy - 2030 was adopted for improving multimodal transport infrastructure in the region by applying international best practices in developing regional and national transport policy, improving cross-border transport operations.
The Corridor Performance Measurement and Monitoring (CPMM) mechanism is an empirical tool designed by the CAREC Program to assess and track the time and cost of moving goods across borders and along the six CAREC corridors, spanning the 11 participating countries—Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Georgia, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
The CAREC Institute’s working paper on the CAREC Regional Integration Index (CRII) explains the CRII, which was designed in 2017 based on the Huh and Park Asia-Pacific Regional Cooperation and Integration Index to measure the depth and breadth of regional economic cooperation.
The CAREC Institute policy dialogue proceedings emerged from a session on the Silk Road Knowledge Dialogue in the framework of the Tbilisi Silk Road Forum held in October 2019 in Tbilisi, Georgia. The session was organized jointly by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the CAREC Institute to generate a dialogue on the role of knowledge corridors in strengthening economic corridors along the Silk Road.