1,711 library_records found for "State of the Basin Report 2018"

Water per head in Vietnamese is 9,650 m3 / person / year, while the world average is only 7,400 m3. However, it is important to remember that 63% of Vietnam's total surface wate...

This article discusses the evolution and implementation of the plan. Especially with the preparation of a project or various resolutions officially, as well as guiding and resol...

This publication is the outcome of the review prepared in collaboration with the Environment Community of Practice and the Environment and Safeguards Division of the Regional an...

Chiang Khong district in Chiang Rai province is highly likely to be chosen to develop a cross-border special economic zone (SEZ) in the Golden Triangle under the Lancang-Mekong ...

This report presents the trends and levels of the food security and nutrition situation in Asia and the Pacific region and highlights relevant policy developments to facilitate ...

The year 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). To commemorate this event, ADB has produced ADB Through the Decades, a series of volumes to provide...

The year 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). To commemorate this event, ADB has produced ADB Through the Decades, a series of volumes to provide...

This report examines the resettlement of people for Nam Ngum 2, a 615-megawatt hydroelectric dam in central Lao PDR. The author identifies several human and environmental rights...

In 2013 Laos joined the World Trade Organization, economic growth was over 8%, and graduation from least-developed country status by 2020 remains achievable. But its human devel...

This report argues that the Myanmar Stark Prestige Plantation (MSPP) case highlights the environmental and social risks of oil palm expansion in Myanmar and advocates that the G...

This paper reviews the development of the agricultural sector in Myanmar after the transition to an open economy in 1988 and analyzes the nature as well as the performance of th...

With the aim of promoting national food security, the Vietnamese government enforces the designation of around 35 per cent of agricultural land strictly for paddy rice cultivati...

The Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) is one of the poorest countries in South East Asia. Yet it has great potential for hydropower development, and the Government of Lao...

The security exception: Development and militarization in Laos’s protected areas 2015

The Government of the Lao PDR has delegated the right to the Ministry of Planning and Investment or the National Land Management Authority for each case to sign a three-party ag...

This decree regulates veterinary management and inspection for the movement of live animals, animal products and goods imported and transported through the territory of Lao PDR.

To monitor and evaluate the implementation of the SDGs, reliable and accurate data that reflect the current situations of the country is indispensible. Hence, this “Baseline Dat...

The development objective of agro-based industry as one of policy instruments of industrialization had been and still continues to pursue over forty years in Myanmar. Yet its pe...

Assess land ownership and use of land before and after land concession in 2008 and 2010

This study made full use of existing information and data from official sources in Vietnam, such as government agencies that are responsible for or related to climate change pol...