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Millenium Development Goals indicators: Country snapshots
Cambodia, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
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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Lao Agriculture Commercialization Project (LACP): Environmental and social management framework (draft) for Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
2017
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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Due Diligence Timber – Thailand
Thailand
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
www.duedilligencetimber.com
2018
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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Sustainable organic agriculture: Opportunity for Thai-rural farmer development
Thailand
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Jiumpanyarach, Waripas
2013
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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Assessing Financial Protection against Disasters: A Guidance Note on Conducting a Disaster Risk Finance Diagnostic
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
The World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Swiss Confederation, GFDRR
2017
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 People's Democratic Republic, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Environmental Investigation Agency
2012
This dataset has no description
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Agrarian land-use transformation in northern Laos
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Thongmanivong S, Phanvilay K, Fujita Y, Fox J, Faculty of...
2006
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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Mysterious Mekong: New Species Discoveries 2012-2013
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
WWF Greater Mekong
2014
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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Land Reform, Livelihoods and Poverty in Vietnam
Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Chris Adams, Oxfarm Vietnam
2012
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
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Issue and policy briefs
Nogales, Alberto
2004
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
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance
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...
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Taking Stock: An Update on Vietnam's Recent Economic Developments
Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Dinh, Viet Tuan; Eckardt, Sebastian; Vu, Quyen Hoang; Alatabani,...
2017
A broad-based recovery in global economic activity has been taking hold since late 2016. Despite some moderation in economic activity in the first half of 2017, Vietnam’s econom...
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Land concession induced livelihood changes: Research on land and livelihood impacts from land concession from mono-culture tree plantation
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
CIDSE-Laos
2009
This research was done to contribute to the debate on the economic concession model by providing local people's perspectives and experiences of the plantations, as well as to fo...
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Asean Climate change REDD+ and Indigenous Peoples
Lao People's Democratic Republic, South-eastern Asia
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) and...
The term Indigenous Peoples is increasingly used by peoples in the ASEAN region who thus far have been called “hill tribes”, “native people” or “ethnic minorities”, and the vari...
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Life expectancy at birth (years)
Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Timor-Leste, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Korea, Republic of, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Viet Nam
October 31, 2018
Source: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.MA.IN?view=chart
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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Agriculture and forestry research strategy to cope climate risk
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Vanthong Phengvichith, NAFRI
2015
Smallholder-based production with low productivity; minimal farmer experience with modern agriculture technologies and marketing, Post-harvest loss still high and lack of value-...
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Advocacy in Cambodia: Increasing Democratic Space 2002
Cambodia
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Pact Cambodia, Cristina Mansfield and Kurt MacLeod
2002
This report aims to identify lessons learned from the advocacy experience in Cambodia that can be shared with advocates working in various sectors. Analysis is based on review o...
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Tree Cover Loss and Gain Area - Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
February 15, 2018
Source: Hansen, M. C., P. V. Potapov, R. Moore, M. Hancher, S. A....
This file contains tabular data on tree cover, loss, and gain produced by the University of Maryland/Google. For more information on each data set, please visit data.globalfores...
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ASEAN Education Ministers Meeting (ASED)
Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
2016
Education underpins ASEAN community building. Education lies at the core of ASEAN’s development process, creating a knowledge-based society and contributing to the enhancement o...
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Climate Change and Sea Level Rise scenarios for Vietnam 2009, 2016
Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Tran Thuc, Bộ Tài nguyên và Môi trường, Nguyễn Văn Thắng, Huỳnh...
2016
The purpose of developing the scenarios of climate change, sea level rise for Vietnam is to provide the basic information of the future trend of climate change and sea level in ...