The economic corridor framework of cooperation is a focused approach to expanding
cooperation in infrastructure projects, but also goes further in helping promote economic
growth and social development. It is a mechanism that integrates physical infrastructure to
production, trade and investment, by way of minimizing non-physical cross-border barriers
within a specific geographic area in order to promote increased flow of trade and
investment, expanded access to raw materials and external markets, regional development
in border areas, and increased efficiency in the use of economic space.