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Based on a seven-volume study financed by ADB, this book discusses the problems and potentials of this important growth triangle, and presents the study's key findings with regard to five major sectors: (i) trade, investment, and labor mobility;(ii) industry and energy; (iii) agriculture and fisheries; (iv) transport and communications; and (v) tourism. It describes opportunities for cooperation, offers policy, project, and program recommendations, and suggests an implementation plan.