EAST-WEST ECONOMIC CORRIDOR AND SOUTHERN ECONOMIC CORRIDOR OF GREATER MEKONG SUBREGION

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The East-West Economic Corridor (EWEC) and the Southern Economic Corridor (SEC) of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) are development projects with the potentials to significantly affect the region in a variety of ways. This article attempts to tentatively answer which stakeholder countries will gain and which will lose from the repercussions of the corridors, by first reviewing on the modern history of China, Japan, and Thailand, and the development history of the corridors, then identifying the stakeholders, identifying the social, economic, and environmental impacts, and evaluating all the associated benefits and costs.