The growing infrastructure demand in cash-strapped Asian countries will necessitate the need for more than $700 billion each year by 2020
This is exactly where the AIIB, a China-proposed international lender open to all qualified countries, came in ready to finance major infrastructure projects in Asia and meet the growing demand for a more inclusive and balanced international financial order.
47 countries have already applied to join AIIB including China, India, Indonesia, Israel, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Laos, Maldives, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Thailand, Vietnam, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Turkey, South Korea, Brazil, Russia, Georgia, the Netherlands, Denmark, Australia, Egypt, Finland, Kyrgyzstan and Sweden.