Author: Hideki Kawahara
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no.RD-08-05
Year: 2008
Academic Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning (RRDP)
Type: Thesis (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2008
Examination Committee: Sylvain Roger Perret (Chairperson); Mukand Singh Babel, Sangam Shrestha, Erik L.J. Bohez(Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: Infrastructure, such as transport, electricity and telecommunication, provide us a lot of services in our daily life. Simultaneously, it contributes to increase our standard of living continuously throughout induced economic growth by structural transformations. On the other hand, according to the World Bank estimate, the global population of people living on less than $1 a day was 986 million as of 2004. Most of them are living in developing countries, and provision of infrastructure is extremely limited in those countries. In the recent context of globalization, the demand of regional cooperation has been increasing. Nowadays, most countries cannot manage several issues by themselves because of complex connection to the world. In Asian region, there is the important regional cooperation project that is the Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Cooperation Program. The general objective in this study is to assess the potential of transport cum economic corridors in the GMS. The planning for infrastructure by organization, the similarity among people, the direct impact on provinces and the development process by country were examined as specific objectives. As a result, at first, according to the planning infrastructure by organization analysis, it was revealed that there exist differences of accomplishment state of transport corridors and policies to road network development by country. For example, Thailand had most advanced highway network in this study area and they were shifting away from road construction to management. Moreover, each country has each limitation, such as geographical features, population structure etc. Second, the similarity between and among countries from people’s point of view had shown the existence of gaps in terms of culture, economy and climate. For instance, Lao PDR and Thailand had most similarities vise versa PRC and Viet Nam had least similarities in this study area. From this result, we could guess the factors of people’s motivation on spontaneous movements, not by government s
Scholarship Donor(s): Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering in Water Engineering and Management
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