provides an
overview of the existing framework for regional infrastructure cooperation and economic
integration in ASEAN as well as in some of the other subregional economic cooperation
initiatives in Asia. The chapter also briefly presents a framework outlining the well-recognized
importance of infrastructure connectivity to competitiveness, trade and growth. Chapter III
looks at the same issues, but specifically in the context of IMT-GT, including an assessment of
intra-IMT trade and the subregional infrastructure. Chapter IV provides a historical context to
approaches, achievements and challenges of enhancing regional connectivity in the IMT-GT
while chapter V uses findings of the field study to provide a perspective on current status of the
proposed IMT-GT economic connectivity corridors. Finally, chapter VI pulls together the
analysis and findings in the study to provide specific recommendations for the way forward