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Public Spending on Health: A Closer Look at Global Trends
{"en": "The 2018 global health financing report presents health spending data for all WHO Member States between 2000 and 2016 based on the SHA 2011 methodology. It shows a trans...
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Improving Lives of Rural Communities Through Developing Small Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
The Energy Policy (2009) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) emphasizes three priorities for achieving inclusive and sustainable growth in its developing member countries (DMC...
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Impacts of contract farming on poverty and environment in Lao PDR
This study builds on the results of existing research and links to ongoing research in contract farming to generate policy-relevant information. The overall goal of this study ...
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Key Summary on Draft Special Economic Zones Act B.E....
This draft Special Economic Zones Act B.E…. aims to be the law on special economic zones, promoting the national trade and investment through ASEAN transport linkage under Free ...
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Laos - Country partnership framework for the period FY2017-FY2021
This document presents the World Bank Group (WBG) Country Partnership Framework (CPF) with the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) for FY 2017-2021. The WBG CPF aims at su...
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Approaches to SDG 17 Partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
This publication intends to offer a first approach to Sustainable Development Goal 17: “Partnerships for the Goals”. It includes the perspectives and views of different networks...
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Decree on Adaptation and Measures to Violators of Regulations on Land Traffic, Land Transport and Highway Protection No. 188 / PM, 03/07/2007
This decree sets out the fine rates and measures for those who violate the Land Traffic Act to provide traffic officials.
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Electricity generation plants
This dataset shows the 17 locations of electricity generation plants in 4 categories: hydropower plants, heavy fuel power plants, coal plants and plants using wood and other bi...
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Fostering Competitive Cities and Urban Areas in the Greater Mekong Subregion: Building Inclusive Economic Clusters Sustainably
This discussion paper focuses on the urban aspects of Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) corridor development and the institutional framework that will be needed to implement invest...
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Turning Land into Capital for Whom? Crises and Alternatives of Land Commodification in Laos
On August 3rd, 2017, the Central Committee of the Lao Peoples Revolutionary Party (hereafter, the Party) the only legally permitted political party and the dominant political i...
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Economic zones in the ASEAN
Competitive strategies depend on the country’s stage of economic development. Industrial Parks and Special Economic Zones will foster a catch-up strategy in less developed count...
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The Seventh Five-Year National Socio- Economic Development Plan (2011-2015) (Lao PDR)
The Seventh Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) is a continuation of the Sixth Five-Year Planand it has an important role in realizing the Ninth Party Congress Resolution, and is regarde...
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Well Begun, Not Yet Done : Vietnam's Remarkable Progress on Poverty Reduction and the Emerging Challenges
This report examines the lives of poor men, women, and children and explores the constraints and opportunities they face today in rising out of poverty. It builds on a rich bo...
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Thailand 4.0 Policy to Become a Mechanism for National Reform
Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha has stated the "Thailand 4.0” policy would become a mechanism for national reform to pull Thailand out of the middle-income trap, econom...
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Large-Scale Land Acquisitions for Agricultural Development in Myanmar: A Review of Past and Current Processes
The objective of this study is to provide a synthesis of historical and contemporary processes of large-scale land acquisition for agricultural development in Myanmar. It relies...
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The 2015 National Internal Migration Survey: Major findings
The purpose of the survey was to collect information on internal migration at the national, socio-economic regional levels, and in the two major cities, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh Ci...
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Royal decree No. 176 on revocation of Snoul Wildlife Sanctuary in Kratie province and Roneam Daun Sam Wildlife Sanctuary in Battambang province
The Royal decree aims to revoke the Snuol Wildlife Sanctuary, established on 01 November 1993 and consisting of 75,000 hectares in Kratie province, as well as the Roneam Daun Sa...
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Myanmar in Deforestation Crisis
Myanmar's forest coverage is down to only a fifth of the country's total area and officials say they want a total ban on exporting wood to foreign countries.The country's Natura...
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Camps, children, chemicals, contractors & credit: field observations of labour practices in plantations & other social developments in Savannakhet and Champasak
Report discusses the labour practices observed and changes in the target communities. It provides detailed summary descriptions of work practices and conditions that are contras...
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Connecting SDG 14 with the other Sustainable Development Goals through Marine Spatial Planning
Despite the oceans’ incontrovertible contribution to the realisation of sustainable development, the importance assigned by the Millennium Development Goals to the conservation ...