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Occupational health and safety for agricultural workers in Thailand: gaps and recommendations, with a focus on pesticide use
Over 16.7 million workers in Thailand (42 percent of the working population) are engaged in agriculture, disproportionately from the lower socioeconomic strata of Thai society. ...
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Biodiversity and Protected Areas – Myanmar
Myanmar lies on the western side of Indochina between latitudes 10000' and 28030' N, and longitudes 92010' and 101010' E, the northernmost areas lying outside the tropics. Its a...
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Asia SME Finance Monitor 2014
The ASM reviews various aspects of SME finance within different countries. These aspects include the banking sector, nonbank sector, and capital markets. The main objectives of ...
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Women and men in Cambodia
This is the fourth edition of a booklet on "Women and Men in Cambodia" produced by the Gender Statistics Team led by the National Institute of Statistics (NIS) of the Ministry o...
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Cultivate or Rent Out? Land Security in Rural Thailand
In the 1980s, the Thai government tried to legalize squatters living in certain geographical areas by issuing special titles that allowed for cultivation but restricted the sale...
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Myanmar Statistical Yearbook
The Myanmar Statistical Year book provides an update compendium of statistics on demographic, socio-economic and environmental aspects of Myanmar. The statistics are compiled fr...
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Current Fisheries and Aquaculture Policies Relevant to RFLP in Viet Nam
The Fisheries sector is a significant contribution to the economy of Vietnam, the export value in 2008 was US$ 4.509 billion. The natural resources, particularly inshore fisheri...
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Women’s Access to Land in Contemporary Viet Nam
Women's access to land is often considered in the context of the oppression, liberation, or uniqueness of Vietnam. This study explores the access to land by women in ten provinc...
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Linking FLEGT and REDD+ to Improve Forest Governance
For the past decade or so, developing countries have engaged in a variety of new international initiatives aiming at improving forest management and governance. The prevailing...
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Percent forest cover by province in Cambodia (1973 - 2014)
The dataset describes percent forest cover by province in Cambodia in 1973, 1989, 2000, 2004, 2009, 2013 and 2014. This dataset is derived from ODC forest cover in Cambodia (197...
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Hectare forest cover by province in Cambodia (1973 - 2014)
The dataset describes hectare forest cover by province in Cambodia in 1973, 1989, 2000, 2004, 2009, 2013 and 2014. This dataset was derived from ODC forest cover in Cambodia ...
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Sanitation coverage rates
This dataset contains excerpts from the Commune Database produced by the NCDD (National Committee for Subnational Democratic Development). Namely quantitative data about the cov...
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Road and railway networks and market density
The Commune Database is produced by the NCDD (National Committee for Subnational Democratic Development). This file contains excerpts of the Database, namely the road and railwa...
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WHO Dengue situation update 557
Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral infection causing a severe flu-like illness and sometimes causing a potentially lethal complication called severe dengue. Dengue is a rapidly em...
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Cambodia: Rapid Growth with Institutional Constraints
This paper examines Cambodia’s socioeconomic development since the early 1990s peace settlement. The country’s economic growth has arguably been the fastest among post-conflict ...
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Biodiversity, Human Rights and Business in Myanmar
This briefing paper explores the relationship between biodiversity, human rights, society and business in Myanmar, with particular reference to the oil and gas, mining and touri...
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Lao PDR environment monitor
The Lao Environment Monitor is the first of a series of monitors presenting a snapshot of environmental status and key trends and challenges in Lao PDR.
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Community Forestry in Myanmar: Progress and Potentials
This paper is the main output of a research project initiated by Pyoe Pin, and led by ECCDI with support from the University of East Anglia, whose aim has been to fill the gap i...
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Myanmar Enterprise Survey 2014: Early Findings
The World Bank Group's Enterprise Survey in Myanmar finds that reforms of the country’s investment climate are urgent across a number of areas, especially access to finance, lan...
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Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Transport Sector Assessment, Strategy, and Road Map
This transport sector assessment, strategy, and road map (ASR) guides the formulation of Asian Development Bank (ADB) assistance to the transport sector in the Lao People’s Demo...