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ASEAN: Regional Trends in Economic Integration, Export, Competitiveness, and Inbound Investment for Selected Industries
This report describes trends in regional integration, export competitiveness, and inbound investment for six industries within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)...
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Environmental Impact Assessments in Developing Countries: An Opportunity for Greater Environmental Security?
The first half of this Working Paper will give a background of the origins and development of environmental impact assessments. The second half of the paper will focus on enviro...
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Good Day for Rosewoods as Species Get More Protection
September 29 has proved to be a major day for forests as 183 countries at the CITES 17th Conference of the Parties (CoP17) agreed to boost protection for dalbergia rosewoods. Th...
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Red Alert: How Fraudulent Siamese Rosewood Exports from Laos and Cambodia are undermining CITES Protection
The 2013 listing of Siamese rosewood (Dalbergia cochinchinensis spp) on Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has failed to protect ...
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Forest Cover Change in Southeast Asia - The Regional Pattern
This document provides an overview of the present pattern of forest change in Southeast Asia at a regional scale. Areas of forest change were identified and approximately deline...
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Climate Change Vulnerability Mapping for South East Asia
This paper provides information on the sub-national areas (regions/districts/provinces) most vulnerable to climate change impacts in Southeast Asia. This assessment was carried ...
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AidData's Global Chinese Official Finance Dataset, 2000-2014, Version 1.0
This dataset captures the known universe of officially-financed Chinese projects in 5 regions of the world from 2000-2014 (including Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacifi...
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Community forestry adaptation roadmap to 2020 for Lao PDR
Community-based forest management in Lao PDR lacks strong legal standing. However, the legal revision process currently underway promises increased rights for communities over...
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Main finding on development of benzoin (Styrax tonkinensis) value chain in five upland provinces of Laos
To identify the natural Benzoin distribution area (Mapping) in Laos with its yield capacity, To investigate and examine the best practise of silvicuture techniques in term of pl...
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The State of the World’s Forests 2018: Forests Pathways to Sustainable Development
The 2018 edition of The State of the World’s Forests aims to do just that, presenting new information to help recognize these interlinkages and enhance our understanding of how ...
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Forestry strategy to the year 2020 of Laos PDR
The overall objective of the Forestry Strategy 2020 is to contribute to achieve the indicative targets of the national socio-economic plans, to provide goods and ...
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Ministry of Energy and Mines: Department of Energy Business; Power Projects Laos
This website lists the existing IPP Hydropower Projects MOU's and the 20 Project Development Agreements issued by the Laos Ministry of Energy and Mines.
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Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Transport Sector Assessment, Strategy, and Road Map
This transport sector assessment, strategy, and road map (ASR) guides the formulation of Asian Development Bank (ADB) assistance to the transport sector in the Lao People’s Demo...
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Power projects in Lao PDR (table showing development status)
A set of tables showing the development status of power projects in Laos. The document includes projects developed before 2000, those operational, under construction, at the pla...
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Lao PDR to Strengthen Road Systems and Improve Connectivity
This press release is about the US $25 million credit from the International Development Association (IDA) to help Lao PDR strengthen its road maintenance systems and improve ro...
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The legal framework of state land leases and concessions in the Lao PDR
Discussion paper on the legal framework of state land leases and concessions in Lao PDR. This paper summarizes the relevant laws and regulations and indicate contradictions in t...
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Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015: Desk Reference
This document is one of three main publications of the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015 (FRA 2015). It contains data for most of the quantitative and Boolean variables c...
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Global Forest Resource Assessment 2010: Main Report
The Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010 (FRA 2010) is the most comprehensive assessment of forests and forestry to date - not only in terms of the number of countries and pe...
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Traditional Customary Laws and Indigenous Peoples in Asia
For years, traditional laws – or customary laws – in Asia have been eroded. This report argues that remaining customary laws should be retained and discusses the extent to which...
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UNICEF Water and Sanitation
This web page provides information about UNICEF's Water and Sanitation Program in Laos. UNICEF’s Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme supports Lao PDR to achieve Mille...