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Emerging market for sustainable food in Bangkok
This paper analyses the process of change towards sustainable food consumption in Bangkok. The authors investigate how consumers and the system of provision interact in retail o...
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Greeen Solutions For Livable Cities
This publication is authored by a multidisciplinary technical assistance team of experts. It shares solutions emerging from the GrEEEn Cities Initiative of the Asian Development...
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Land degradation in Laos: Materiality and discourses
Building on recent debates related to environment change an knowledge production, this paper examines the social construction and political outcomes of the current official disc...
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Thailand’s New Transfer Pricing Guidelines
Transfer pricing refers to the sale of goods or services between branches of a company or subsidiary companies to a parent enterprise, and most countries instate some form of tr...
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Forest Plantation Act B.E. 2535 (1992) and Revisions
There shall be added a definition of “Forest by-product” between the definitions of “Plant” and “Sign” in section 3 of the Forest Plantation Act, B.E.2535 (1992).“ The land whic...
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Viet Nam: Energy Sector Assessment, Strategy, and Road Map
This energy sector assessment, strategy, and road map for Viet Nam documents the current assessment of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the strategic investment priorities ...
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Viet Nam Energy Sector Assessment, Strategy and Road Map
This energy sector assessment, strategy, and roadmap for Viet Nam documents the current assessment of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the strategic investment priorities o...
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Promoting land rights in Vietnam: A multi-sector advocacy coalition approach
Paper prepared for presentation at the “ANNUAL WORLD BANK CONFERENCE ON LAND AND POVERTY”. The World Bank - Washington DC, April 8-11, 2013. "The paper begins with a political e...
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Due Diligence Timber – Thailand
The great majority of Thailand's wood processing industry is based on tree plantations (mainly rubber and acacia). Few of the illegalities associated with supplies from forest a...
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Environmental and Social Management Framework: Protected Area And Wildlife Project
This Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) has been prepared for the Protected Area and Wildlife Project (PAW). The project aims to strengthen the management syst...
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Millenium Development Goals indicators: Country snapshots
These snapshots provide an overview of the progress achieved since 1990 on the Millennium Development Goals at the country level. Progress is assessed on the basis of data avail...
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Assessing Financial Protection against Disasters: A Guidance Note on Conducting a Disaster Risk Finance Diagnostic
The World Bank and Asian Development Bank have worked in more than 50 countries to (i) quantify the economic and fiscal impact of disasters; (ii) take stock of existing mechanis...
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Lao Agriculture Commercialization Project (LACP): Environmental and social management framework (draft) for Lao PDR
This Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) for Lao PDR will be applied to all investments to be financed by the World Bank for technical and/or financial support ...
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Sustainable organic agriculture: Opportunity for Thai-rural farmer development
This paper analysed the opportunities of rural farmers in north Thailand and factors influencing their incomes. Between January 2012 and October 2012 the author interviewed 124 ...
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Mysterious Mekong: New Species Discoveries 2012-2013
An extraordinary 367 new species were discovered in the Greater Mekong in 2012 and 2013. Among the species newly described by scientists are 290 plants, 24 fish, 21 amphibians, ...
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Agrarian land-use transformation in northern Laos
Farmers in northern Laos have been experiencing a rapid transformation from subsistence agricultural production to intensive cash crop cultivation over the last decade....
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Land Reform, Livelihoods and Poverty in Vietnam
The purpose of this background paper is to provide Oxfam with information, analysis and recommendations on a number of land-related issues in Vietnam which can then be used to d...
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Lao PDR: Transport sector brief
A brief about the transport sector in Laos. The author describes the transport sector, including roads, waterways and air transport. They then discuss key issues affecting the s...
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Lao PDR Disaster Management Reference Handbook 2017
The Disaster Management Reference Handbook Series is intended to provide decision makers, planners, responders and disaster management practitioners with an overview of the disa...