Economic corridors forming around the Greater Mekong Subregion have opened the way to greater development as better infrastructure leads to improved roads and bridges between neighbors.

The corridors are boosting economic growth in the GMS, and promoting intraregional trade and investment for Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Viet Nam, Thailand, and Yunnan Province and the Guanxi Autonomous Region in the People’s Republic of China.

Questions remain about the net benefits after the high cost of infrastructure; how evenly the benefits are spread; and how border security can be maintained in the face of trafficking of people, drugs, timber, wildlife, weapons, and black market goods.

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Manabu Fujimura, a professor at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo.

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