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HARVESTING HAPPINESS Is agriculture extension contributing to well‐being and happiness of poor people in communities of Houn district, Oudomxay province, Laos? March 2008
In order to ensure that all Lao people have a better living standard and to achieve international development agenda, the Government of Laos has adopted economic growth strateg...
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Combatting Human Trafficking in East Asia: Mind the Gaps
Despite the ratification of global and regional anti-trafficking frameworks and enactment of relevant national laws, human trafficking remains an endemic security problem in Eas...
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A Program for Thai Rubber Tappers to Improve the Cost of Occupational Health and Safety
The purposes of this research were to determine the cost of occupational health and safety and work-related health problems, accidents, injuries and illnesses in rubber tappers ...
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The World Bank in Lao PDR: Overview
The webpage provides an overview of the state of social development in Lao PDR.
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The Provincial Forest Sector Guideline focuses on controlling timber harvesting to reduce the damage
To comply with the laws and regulations of the above mentioned government as well as increase the amount of material and increase income for society, business operators and the...
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Myanmar: UNPO Submission to the UN OHCHR Universal Periodic Review
The Unrepresented Nations and People's Organization (UNPO) is an International, Non-violent and Democratic Membership Organization. Its Members are indigenous peoples, minoritie...
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Overlooked and Undermined: Communities Affected by Jade Mining Operations in Myanmar, and the Responsibilities of Companies Providing Machinery
Since early 2000s, the dramatically increased use of heavy mining machinery in Myanmar has enabled the extraction of minerals at an unprecedented speed. Impacts on local communi...
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Comparison of Anti-Trafficking Legal Regimes and Actions in the Council of Europe and ASEAN: Realities, Frameworks and Possibilities for Collaboration
Europe and Southeast Asia are the only regions in the world to have adopted comprehensive legally binding anti-trafficking conventions: the Council of Europe Convention on Actio...
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Timber Legality Assurance System of Cambodia
Presentation slides emphasizing the importance of having laws, regulations and clear policy as stated in the NFP in cooperation with EU to develop FLEGT-VPA
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Access to land title in Cambodia: A study of Systematic Land Registration in three Cambodian provinces and the Capital
The primary focus of the research was to identify when and how exclusions and other barriers are preventing people from accessing Systematic Land Registration (SLR), and how thi...
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Analysis of Cambodia’s Preparedness for the Implementation of Cambodia's Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges, Opportunities and Financing
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), envisioned, on top of all, to slash world poverty by half, will end this December 2015. The post MDGs development agenda termed the Sust...
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Laos and the silk road economic belt – analysis July 30th, 2015
Laos not only joined the GSM, but also ASEAN 1997 and WTO 2013 this gradual opening of the Laotian economies to foreing trade and investment contributed to its two decade to ann...
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Se Kong- Se San and Nam Theun River Basins Hydropower Study
This document is the Appendix part of the final report study of Se Kong-Se San Nam Theun River Basins Hydropower. This document provides more detail information of Lower Se San ...
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Case study, Thailand: Pak Mun Dam and Mekong/Mun river basins (executive summary)
An executive summary of a case study of the Pak Mun Hydropower project, a run-of-the-river dam in the Northeast of Thailand. The report is primarily based on secondary sources...
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Investment environment in Lao PDR
1. Key Challenges that current regional Investment trend poses to Laos 2. How does the revised Investment Promotion Law fosters responsible investments?
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Civil society’s role and contributions towards good government and poverty reduction in the Lao PDR 2015
Around the world, there is wide recognition that societal, economic and environmental problems cannot be solved by governments acting on their own, and meanwhile there is a grow...
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The Indigenous World 2024
The Indigenous World is the unique result of a collaborative effort between Indigenous and non-indigenous activists and scholars who voluntarily document and report on the situa...
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Building a sustainable future for the Mekong
A joint statement affirming the importance of sound environmental management in the Mekong region, by representatives of the Governments of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, th...
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From land grab to agrarian transition? Hybrid trajectories of accumulation and environmental change on the Cambodia–Vietnam border
This paper explores the divergent processes of agrarian transition in Cambodia and Vietnam and the ways in which they intersect through flows across the border, arguing that it ...
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The people and their river, the World Bank and its Dam: Revisiting the Xe bang fai river in Laos
According to the World Bank, ‘[NT2] demonstrates that hydro power projects can be designed and implemented to deliver sustainable outcomes through state-of-the-art environment...