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Improving Lives of Rural Communities Through Developing Small Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
The Energy Policy (2009) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) emphasizes three priorities for achieving inclusive and sustainable growth in its developing member countries...
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Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2017
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,...
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Lao PDR and ADB: Celebrating 50 Years of Partnership
Over the past 50 years, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have worked to reduce poverty and improve the quality of life in the...
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Meeting Asia's Infrastructure Needs: Highlights
Infrastructure is essential for development. This publication presents the highlights of a report on the current condition of developing Asia’s infrastructure—defined here as...
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Meeting Asia's Infrastructure Needs
In 2009, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the ADB Institute projected infrastructure needs for developing Asia from 2010 to 2020 in Infrastructure for a Seamless Asia...
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Proceedings of the Greater Mekong Subregion Urban Development and Planning Training Program
This report summarizes a 5-day training program on the PRC’s experience in urban development and planning, for the benefit of key officials of the six countries of the Greater...
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A Region at Risk: The Human Dimensions of Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific
The Asia and Pacific region is extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Unabated warming could significantly undo previous achievements of economic development and...
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Together We Deliver: 50 Stories of ADB's Partnerships in Asia and the Pacific
Over the 50 years since the Asian Development Bank (ADB) was founded, it has supported thousands of projects and programs that have benefited millions of people across Asia and...
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Cambodia's Roadmap For Sustainable Development: The National Environment Strategy and Action Plan
Cambodia's National Environment Strategy and Action Plan, 2016-2023 (NESAP) aims to ensure that environmental protection and sustainable natural resource management are pillars...
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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...
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The Greater Mekong Subregion: Core Environment Program
The pattern of economic growth that has enabled the countries of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) to grow rapidly over the past 2 decades is no longer sustainable. That growth...
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Greater Mekong Subregion Core Environment Program: Strategic Framework and Action Plan 2018-2022
The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) remains on a steady trajectory of economic growth and poverty reduction. This trend is expected to accelerate following the establishment of...
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Statistics on Growth, Energy and Bilateral Trade in the Greater Mekong Subregion
The “Statistics on Growth, Energy and Bilateral Trade in the Greater Mekong Subregion” (third edition) was used as a meeting or reference document during the 9th Economic...
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Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Cooperation Program: Overview of the Regional Investment Framework 2022
The “Overview of the Regional Investment Framework 2022” was used as meeting document during the recently concluded 6th GMS Summit on 31 March 2018. The Regional Investment...
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Third National Report on the implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Since Lao PDR has become a party of the Convention on Biological Diversity on September 20, 1996 and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety on November 1, 2004. The Lao government...
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The Costs of Meeting the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal Targets on Drinking Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
This study assesses the global costs of meeting the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)-related targets of SDG 6. It is intended to serve as a vital input to determining the...
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Assessment of the environmental and social impacts created by the VLRC industrial rubber plantation and proposed environmental and social plans
Vietnam General Rubber Corporation entered into an Authorisation and Licence Agreement with the Government of Lao PDR on the 18th of January 2005 for the...
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Amultisectoral food and nutrition security action plan (FNS-AP) - Progress and update
Presentation to the sector working group on agriculture and rural development
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Rethinking the sustainability of the Mekong
The mekong is a major transboundary central to the lives of the people in the southeast asia,Since 2006 contested plans have emerged for up to eleven dams on the lower...
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Cambodia’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution to UNFCCC
Cambodia recognises the need for respecting the principles of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), in particular the principle of ‘common but...