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The implicit message to the researchers in our call for proposals was that their contributions dwell on the possible economic and social effects of the routes and economic corridors in their regions giving inputs and references to Latin American scholars. From the perspective of their specializations, they used deductive and analytic methods during their process of production of knowledge. (Muñoz, 1998, pp. 192-193). They used primarily sources to analyse events such as the construction of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, (strategically the most important segment for China of the BRI initiative for the outlet it gives to the Arabian Sea without touching Indian soil¹) or Narendra Modi’s, Sagarmala Project (which aims to unite the four cardinal points of India²) and the study and compilation of secondary sources (reports, analysis statistics, government declarations, research articles etc.), devoted themselves to the task of describing historical movements, economic and social impacts, the important actors involved, their foreign policy interests and strategies, in order to later critically show the way in which the new kinds of connectivity and the failure or success of infrastructure megaprojects affect vectors such as South-South Cooperation, finance and debt mechanisms, internal growth, national security, the deepening of connectivity gaps or flow of information etc. Finally, the scholars gave recommendations or useful tips to the establishment in Latin America.