This paper has used Sufficiency Economy Matrix multiplier and optimization analyses to estimate the impacts of the East West Economic Corridor on economic growth, poverty reduction and the implementation of the sufficiency economy philosophy in Mukdahan province, Thailand. We employed both the...

Unprecedented resource, economic, and social constraints now require social and economic planners to view 5-year plans as a problem of constrained optimization. Analyses of social accounting matrices have typically been limited to multiplier analyses, which proceed by trial and error and largely...