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Technical guidelines on compensation and resettlement in development projects
In Lao PDR, resettlement procedures and practices are evolving over time and are constantly refined and strengthened as more experience is gained from development proje...
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Falling rubber prices in Northern Laos: local responses and policy options
A rubber case study by Thoumthone Vongvisouk, PhD and Michael Dwyer, PhD on Falling rubber prices in Northern Laos: local responses and policy options. The report highlights the...
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An approach to designing pro-poor local REDD+ benefit distribution systems: Lessons from Vietnam
Provides lessons learned from Vietnam's approach to designing a pro-poor REDD+ benefits distribution system for the future development of effective benefit distribution systems ...
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Prospects for Regional Cooperation on Environmental Impact Assessment in Mainland Southeast Asia
This article begins from the premise that there are potential benefits to transnational cooperation to address environmental impacts, whether they are felt within a single count...
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Safeguarding Myanmar's Environment
Since emerging from decades of economic and political isolation, Myanmar’s reconnection with the global community has seen its economy grow more than 6% every year. ADB forecast...
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Policy and legislation on climate change in Vietnam
The article quotes some extracts from a report of Mr. Truong Duc Tri, Deputy Director of Department of Meteorology, Hydrology and Climate Change - Ministry of Natural Resources ...
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Cross-Border Trades and Commerce between Thailand and Neighboring Countries: Policy Implications for Establishing Special Border Economic Zones
Thai border cities currently play major roles as distribution centers; while industrial development along Thai border regions has not progressed enough to capture the full poten...
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Myanmar balances forestry exports with preservation
The forestry sector has been vitally important to Myanmar. When the country was isolated by sanctions, the selling of logs and wood helped bring in desperately needed hard curre...
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Managing aid for trade and development results - Vietnam Case study
The study reviews Vietnam’s economic development and its trade performance in the last two decades, as the country has moved to a market-based economy and opened up to the world...
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Interview with grant evans
Transcript of an interview conducted with historian Grant Evans, an anthropologist who specialized in Laos and produced numerous academic works about the country. Published in t...
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Manual participatory agriculture and forest land use planning at village and village cluster levels
The objective of this MOU is to formalize arrangements between the parties regarding development, dissemination and use of the manual (the Manual) on participatory ...
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Myanmar Economic Bulletin: Volume 1, Number 1
Welcome to the first issue of the Myanmar Economic Bulletin, the flagship publication of the Myanmar Development Institute (MDI). A think-tank established by the notification fr...
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Promoting intra-regional connectivity for economic growth: Cambodia and ASEAN in 2012
Since 2002, this year Cambodia played role as the Chair of ASEAN for the first time. The Chair will provide an opportunity for Cambodia to mould ...
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Laos Statistical Yearbook 2017
The statistics yearbook are summarizing the data from provincial statistics Centre and from the line ministries concerned and ministry-equivalent agencies in the whole country i...
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Synergies Among Social Safeguards in FLEGT and REDD+ in Cameroon
This paper presents (i) a comparison of the social safeguards of the FLEGT-VPA and REDD+ processes and an explanation of their commonalities and differences, and (ii) an explora...
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Tyrants, Tycoons and Tigers: Yuzana Company Ravages Burmas Hugawng Valley
A bitter land struggle is unfolding in northern Burma’s remote Hugawng Valley. Farmers that have been living for generations in the valley are defying one of the country’s most ...
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Scoping Paper: Options for Analysing Mangrove Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity in Myanmar.
This report draws on past and ongoing research and initiatives to identify important benefits provided by mangroves within Myanmar, as well as data needs and limitations to incl...
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SDG 4 Monitoring: Framework Development
Education is a central theme throughout the 2030 Agenda, which includes a standalone education goal and education related targets within seven other SDGs (UIS, 2016).1 In partic...
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They will need land!
A report by Jean-Christophe Diepart on They Will Need Land, The current land tenure situation and future land allocation needs of smallholder farmers in Cambodia.
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Global Missing Children Research, Country-Specific Findings: Lao People’s Democratic Republic
The document provides a summary of human trafficking in Lao PDR, missing child cases, child protection, and international instruments that ensure protection for children who are...