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Agribusiness Models for Inclusive Growth in Myanmar: Diagnosis and Ways Forward
Myanmar is at a crossroad. Given high levels of landlessness and land inequality and low productivity of most small and medium-scale farmers (SMFs), the country is searching for...
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Guideline and Policy Measure to Develop and Form Thailand’s Special Economic Zones
The research report informs suitable patterns of Special Economic Zones along the border areas of Thailand, and provides policy guidelines and measures that can be implemented t...
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Lao PDR Biodiversity: Economic Assessment
This report aims to document the current economic status of biodiversity in Lao PDR, and to use this information to identify needs for the use of incentives, financing mechanism...
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Oudomxay NTFP Exchange Meeting 14 to -17 March 2005
This is the report of a four-day exchange meeting between organizations working on Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) in Oudomxay Province. The goal of the meeting was to promot...
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Tin mining in Myanmar: Production and potential
In 2014, Myanmar (Burma) confounded industry analysts by emerging to become the World's third biggest tin producer, experiencing a 5-year tin production increase of ca. 4900%. T...
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ILO Lifts All Restrictions on Burma
An article in The Irrawaddy on the announcement by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to lift restrictions on Myanmar. The restrictions, which were imposed by the UN ag...
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Piloting Khumban Phathana in Sekong Province
This report is targeted the Office of the Governor in Sekong(OoG), the epartment of Planning and Investment in Sekong (DPI), Sekong Ethnic People’s Development Project, SEP-Dev,...
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Estimated illegally-sourced timber and wood products in Thailand, 2000-2012
Estimates of illegal wood imports by consumer and processing countries have been made based on an analysis of all wood product imports, including pulp and paper. The analysis us...
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Integrating Analytical Frameworks to Investigate Land-Cover Regime Shifts in Dynamic Landscapes
Regime shifts—rapid long-term transitions between stable states—are well documented in ecology but remain controversial and understudied in land use and land cover change (LUCC)...
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A Strategic Agricultural Sector and Food Security Diagnostic for Myanmar
Despite its enormous potential, Myanmar’s agriculture has underperformed over the past fifty years. Today, per capita earnings in agriculture average roughly $200 a year, one-ha...
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Labour and social trends in Vietnam 2009/10
This is a rich information source that can be used as an advocacy tool for advancing decent work in Viet Nam. The report provides an overview of recent labour market trends in t...
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Land information coordination strategy
A report examining the availability of land and spatial information across Laos, the implications for land rights, and recommendations to improve upon the current situation.
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Research on family violence and gender in rural Lao PDR
Violence against women is all acts that cause violence to women who cause physical, sexual and psychological harm, or women's torture, including rape, double-breasted or unjusti...
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Special Economic Development Zones under ASEAN Guidelines
This report addresses the historical developments of special economic zones (SEZs) in a various forms and categories. It is examined that SEZ is one of the five economic zones a...
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Forest investment program, Laos investment plan
This report highlights Laos investment in forest management and opportunities for REDD+. The report discusses the forest sector in Laos and summarises the Laos REDD+ programme. ...
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Lao Labor Migration and Remittance 2014
Lao Labor Migration and Remittance 2014
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Myanmar Action Plan on Disaster Risk Reduction (MAPDRR) 2012
Myanmar is exposed to multiple natural hazards which include Cyclone, Storm surge, Floods, Landslide, Earthquake, Tsunami, Drought, Fire and Forest Fire. Its coastal regions are...
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Timber Trade and Wood Flow–Study – Myanmar
The current study on wood demand and supply, and forest industries in the Union of Myanmar is a part of the Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management in Remote Greater Meko...
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Wildlife hunting and use 2005
Across the villages, households eat meat or fish an average of 6.7 times per week. Wildlife was reported eaten 1.9 times in the week prior to the survey. Wildlife and fish cover...
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Planned resettlement, unexpected migrations and cultural trauma in Laos
Though not officially considered a 'policy' by the Lao government, resettlement of ethnic minorities has become a central feature of the rural development strategy in Laos. Over...