1. To provide practical, rigorous, clear, consistent and quantifiable planning tools for key provinces along the East-West Growth corridor linking Myanmar with Vietnam.
2. To find the single best strategy for environmentally sustainable and socially equitable growth through the innovative optimization of those tools.
3. To compare the results of optimization of the SAMs of standard economics with innovative SEMs inspired by the King's philosophy.
4 To identify, for the greater benefit of all partner countries in the region, the comparative and competitive advantage of key arget provinces.
5 To train 4 non-Thai Ph.Ds in the King's Philosophy and the construction of regional planning models.
6 To develop a pilot study that may be used throughout Thailand during the 2007-2011 10th Five-year Plan.