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Climate change and hydropower development
A training material by Joerg Hartmann on climate change and hydropower development published in May 2014 by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH i...
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Climate proofing ADB investment in the transport sector: initial experience
This publication is the outcome of the review prepared in collaboration with the Environment Community of Practice and the Environment and Safeguards Division of the Regional an...
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ADB through the decades: ADB's fifth decade (2007-2016)
The year 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). To commemorate this event, ADB has produced ADB Through the Decades, a series of volumes to provide...
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ADB through the decades: ADB's fourth decade (1997-2006)
The year 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). To commemorate this event, ADB has produced ADB Through the Decades, a series of volumes to provide...
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Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition: Investing in Food Systems for Better Nutrition
This report presents the trends and levels of the food security and nutrition situation in Asia and the Pacific region and highlights relevant policy developments to facilitate ...
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Resettlement impacts of Nam Ngum 2 hydro-power project on community culture
This report examines the resettlement of people for Nam Ngum 2, a 615-megawatt hydroelectric dam in central Lao PDR. The author identifies several human and environmental rights...
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A nice communication strategy
This document presents a simple, practical, and strategic process for the participatory development of communications initiatives to be used by the Lao PDR National Agriculture ...
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Rice Land Designation Policy in Vietnam and the Implications of Policy Reform for Food Security and Economic Welfare
With the aim of promoting national food security, the Vietnamese government enforces the designation of around 35 per cent of agricultural land strictly for paddy rice cultivati...
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Agricultural Policies and Development of Myanmar's Agricultural Sector: An Overview
This paper reviews the development of the agricultural sector in Myanmar after the transition to an open economy in 1988 and analyzes the nature as well as the performance of th...
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Green Desert: Communities in Tanintharyi Renounce the MSPP Oil Palm Concession 2016
This report argues that the Myanmar Stark Prestige Plantation (MSPP) case highlights the environmental and social risks of oil palm expansion in Myanmar and advocates that the G...
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Lao PDR economic monitor
The government continued to make progress with the overall public finance management framework, including issuing a decree on MOF restructuring and the approval of a new chart o...
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HTCT, Andritz Hydro, Kansai_ESIA of Deedoke Hydropower Project
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Water resouces in Vietnam - weak and lacking
Water per head in Vietnamese is 9,650 m3 / person / year, while the world average is only 7,400 m3. However, it is important to remember that 63% of Vietnam's total surface wate...
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[Draft] Completed environmental and social impact assessment: Project on submarine cable network construction of Telcotech ltd
Telcotech is a member of Asia AmericanGateway and is the exclusive Internet Service Provider for Cambodia, a submarine cable network linking the United States with South-East As...
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Hydropower-induced displacement and resettlement in the Lao PDR
The Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) is one of the poorest countries in South East Asia. Yet it has great potential for hydropower development, and the Government of Lao...
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The security exception: Development and militarization in Laos’s protected areas 2015
The security exception: Development and militarization in Laos’s protected areas 2015
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Agro-Based Industries in Myanmar: The Long Road to Industrialisation
The development objective of agro-based industry as one of policy instruments of industrialization had been and still continues to pursue over forty years in Myanmar. Yet its pe...
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decree of goverment for acception and exception in electical project23/9/2010
The Government of the Lao PDR has delegated the right to the Ministry of Planning and Investment or the National Land Management Authority for each case to sign a three-party ag...
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Promotion of Climate Resilience for Food Security in ASEAN
This study made full use of existing information and data from official sources in Vietnam, such as government agencies that are responsible for or related to climate change pol...
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Measuring Myanmar’s starting point for the Sustainable Development Goals
To monitor and evaluate the implementation of the SDGs, reliable and accurate data that reflect the current situations of the country is indispensible. Hence, this “Baseline Dat...