1,700 library_records found for "State of the Basin Report 2018"

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...

The government continued to make progress with the overall public finance management framework, including issuing a decree on MOF restructuring and the approval of a new chart o...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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 document presents ADB’s experience in developing Climate Investment Funds (CIF) programs and highlights innovative transformations expected from or already achieved by ADB ...

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.

The objectives of this study were to 1) analyse the contents and extent of forest-related rights that can be devolved to the local level according to the prevailing legal fram...

The Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2017 (Key Indicators 2017), the 48th edition of this series, provides statistics on a comprehensive set of economic, financial, socia...

This publication on urban development in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS)—a first of its kind—reflects recognition of the greater potential roles of urban development, increas...

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

The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS: Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and Yunnan and Guangxi in China) is undergoing unprecedented changes. Many of these are positiv...

A paper about Thailand’s Power Development Plan (PDP), the master investment plan for power system development. The authors offer a new PDP, which they argue is more consistent...

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 is the second of two UNDP-sponsored papers on implementing higher education reform in Vietnam. This paper looks beyond the apex to suggest a system-level policy framework...

Most of the terrestrial biodiversity within the Asia-Pacific region is contained within forests. Protected areas are the mainstay for biodiversity conservation although other fo...