Where economic giants tread

 Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam (CLMV) try to trek on the same path. Long term goal: to rise on equal footing with the economic giants. Mission, not impossible, if CLMV’s winning weapon would bear the two-in-one insignia: a combination of scientifi c skills and managerial acumen.

Balisacan stresses that if CLMV countries were to be equal footing with the economic giants, now is the time for them to concentrate on cooking up a "mix of policies and institutions needed to spur rural growth and exploit the benefits of globalization.