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Sustainable population development
Family planning in Vietnam has made significant achievement in recent years, but it still faces a number of challenges in order to achieve sustainable population development.
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Impacts of changes to the population age structure on Vietnam’s economy and policy recommendations
This executive summary provides key updated information and fndings related to the impacts on Vietnam’s economy of changes in the population age structure, and a number of polic...
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Resolutions No. 21 NQ/TW about Population work in the new stage
Resolutions No. 21 NQ/TW about Population work in the new stage was issued by Central Executive Committee, at 6th Congress 12th Central Executive Committee. Objectives: Address...
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Life expectancy at birth (years)
Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout ...
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Population and Employment - Excerpt from "Statistical Yearbook 2016"
Explanation of terminology, content and calculation methodology of some statistical indicators on population and labour. Statistical indicators of population and employment in ...
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The Age and Sex structure of Vietnam's population: Evidence from the Intercensal Population and Housing Survey 2014
This factsheet presents key highlights of changes in population age and sex structure in Vietnam, using the data from two Vietnam Population and Housing Censuses, conducted in 1...
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Graduation from Least Developed Country Status: The 5th National Human Development Report
The 5th National Human Development Report (NHDR) examines different facets of underdevelopment in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) that classify it as a Least Deve...
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Freshwater Ecoregions of the Greater Meknong including; Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar
Freshwater species and habitats are, on average around the world, more imperiled than their terrestrial counterparts. Yet, large-scale conservation planning efforts have rarely ...
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Greater Mekong Subregion hydropower dams
A dataset containing known operational and planned hydropower dams in the Greater Mekong Subregion compiled by International Rivers and published in June 2014. Dams data are com...
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All Hydropower Potential Must be Developed: Energy Official.
This media article argues presents the Laos PDR governments stance on hydropower projects in Laos. It cites government representatives' discussion about why Laos' hydpropower pr...
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Turning Land into Capital, Turning People into Labour: Primitive Accumulation and the Arrival of Large-Scale Economic Land Concessions in the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
In recent years the government of Laos has provided many foreign investors with large-scale economic land concessions to develop plantations. These concessions have resulted in ...
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Ecotourism as an Alternative to Upland Rubber Cultivation in the Nam Ha National Protected Area, Luang Namtha
Tourism arrivals in Laos continue to rise, reaching over one million people in 2005. It seems that visitors are primarily interested in the country’s natural and cultural attrac...
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Drivers of Forest Change in the Greater Mekong Subregion: Lao PDR Country Report
The main objective of this study was to review and analyze existing information on the drivers of change currently affecting Lao forests - including both negative and positive d...
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Protected Area Governance and Equitable Access in the Lao PDR
This report provides eight recommendations for implementing the concept of equitable access in the governance of protected areas, particularly in the Lao PDR. First, formalize a...
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Impacts of the Laos Log and Sawnwood Export Bans
In May 2016, the Government of Lao PDR enacted a Prime Ministerial Order (PM15) which, along with other commitments, aimed to help control the country’s high deforestation rates...
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Rice: The fabric of life in Laos
A report about the challenges and achievements of the rice sector in Laos. The report covers the challenge of establishing a reliable supply of rice in Laos, the challenges of f...
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Vulnerability assessment of climate risks in Attapeu province, Lao PDR
The report of a study to assess household and community vulnerability to floods in Attapeu Province, Laos. This study is one of three assessing the potential consequences of cli...
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The art of not being governed: An anarchist history of upland Southeast Asia
This book, essentially an “anarchist history,” is the first-ever examination of the huge literature on state-making whose author evaluates why people would deliberately and reac...
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Underlying causes of deforestation in the Mekong region
This paper discusses the relationship between deforestation and development, as well as causation in deforestation. The paper then describes the situation in the Mekong, focusin...