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Entrance to sustainable development
Entrance to sustainable development
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Rural finance in Laos: GIZ experience in remote rural areas
A report on challenges and successes of the GIZ in engaging in micro-financing in rural areas in Laos
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Re-assembling Informal Gold Mining for Development and Sustainability? Opportunities and Limits to Formalisation in India, Indonesia and Laos
This chapter draws upon empirical fieldwork conducted in three understudied locations in India, Indonesia and Lao PDR, as part of a multi-country research project aimed at under...
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Old policies - new action: a surprising political initiative to recognize human rights in Cambodian land reform
Under the motto 'old policies, new action', in June 2012 the Cambodian Prime Minister initiated a massive land registration campaign on untitled former forest land. Unauthorised...
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Cambodian peasant's contribution to rural development: a perspective from Kampong Thom Province
The paper aims to identify the rationality of peasant communities and their contribution to rural development in Kampong Thom province. To do so, the authors explore the dynamic...
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'I am a child with education and knowledge': Karen migrant and refugee children's daily life experiences in Thailand
A masters thesis about Karen migrant and refugee children’s daily life experiences in Thailand. One urban school for migrant children and one rural refugee camp school served as...
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Mekong Delta plan: long-term vision and strategy for a safe, prosperous and sustainable delta
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Kingdom of the Netherlands have signed a Strategic Partnership Arrangement on Climate Change Adaptation and Water Management (October 2...
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China as a development actor in Southeast Asia
This Evidence Report identifies and explains the central factors driving China’s policies towards Southeast Asia. It examines China’s foreign relations through the perspective o...
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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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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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Develop ethnic local officials - A method to enhance ethnic equality rights in Vietnam
During the renewal period, the Communist Party and Vietnamese Government had issued and implemented many policies to develop ethnic local officials; focused on building manageme...
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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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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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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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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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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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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...