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ZONED OUT: A comprehensive impact evaluation of Mekong economic development zone
This report presents a study that applies publicly available information to assess foreign-invested economic development zones (EDZs) across the Mekong region. Analysis of EDZ's...
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Unlocking the potential: Country diagnostic study
This report Myanmar: Unlocking the Potential is an output of a comprehensive study carried out by ADB’s Economics and Research Department (ERD) under RETA 8343, Subproject 2 of ...
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Stimson: Mekong Infrastructure Tracker
The Mekong Infrastructure Tracker database is a tracking tool launched by the Stimson Center, which builds on existing data to present a comprehensive source of information on...
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Coping with resettlement: A livelihood adaptation analysis in the Mekong River basin
A major driver of change in the Mekong River basin relates to hydropower development and the consequent changes in landscape and natural resource access regime that it induces. ...
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Resettlement Policy Framework of the Cambodia Sustainable Landscape and Ecotourism Project
This document is the Resettlement Policy Framework (RPF) for the proposed Cambodia Sustainable Landscape and Ecotourism Project (CSLEP) prepared by the Ministry of Environment (...
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How China’s power companies invest overseas
China’s power infrastructure investment comes in multiple forms, all of which entail different risks
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Myanmar: unlocking the potential
The Asian Development Bank's country diagnostic study on Myanmar's economic development, published the Asian Development Bank, Mandaluyong City, Philippines, 2014.
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Lao PDR Country Report
This report provides a comprehensive picture of the infrastructure situation and policy in LAO PDR and gives an analysis of fundamental problems. Laos aims to achieve its ambit...
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Draft Strategy for Denmark’s Cooperation with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
This Strategy for the cooperation between Denmark and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) forms the basis for the Danish contributions to the organisation, and it is...
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The World Bank in Lao PDR: Overview
The webpage provides an overview of the state of social development in Lao PDR.
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Laos to build Don Sahong dam (thanks to Chinese help)
The Laotian government officially announces the construction of the dam. Once completed, it will likely affect the lives of at least 60 million people, damaging crops and ecosys...
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Roads, Bridges, Ports and People
During some of the heaviest bombing the world has ever seen, roads, bridges and ports were obliterated in Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia. Today, in a dramatic reversal of fortune, ...
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Infrastructure to aid Mekong development
Construction of two bridges linking Cao Lãnh City and Lấp Vò District in Đồng Tháp Province and Đồng Tháp with Cần Thơ, which are under way, will be a big boost to transportatio...
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Export Performance and Trade Facilitation Reform
The authors estimate the impact of aggregate indicators of “soft” and “hard” infrastructure on the export performance of developing countries. They build four new indicators fo...
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Off the Rails: AusAID and the Troubled Cambodian Railways Project
The rehabilitate and privatise the railway system project is pitched as an economic driver for Cambodia in which the poor will, in some unarticulated way, eventually share. But ...
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Final Report on Compliance Review Panel Request No. 2012/2 on the Greater Mekong Subregion Rehabilitation of the Railway Project in the Kingdom of Cambodia
This report was prepared by the Compliance Review Panel (CRP) in response to a request for compliance review of the Greater Mekong Subregion: Rehabilitation of the Railway in Ca...
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Derailed: A study on the resettlement process and impacts of the rehabilitation of the Cambodian railway
The Railway Project aims to enable efficient and cost-effective transport of heavy, bulky and hazardous cargo. According to ADB, this is expected to lower the costs of main comm...
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Graduation from Least Developed Country Status: The 5th National Human Development Report
The 5th National Human Development Report (NHDR) examines different facets of underdevelopment in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) that classify it as a Least Deve...
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Laos And China Come to Terms on Loan Interest Rate For Railway Project
Archived news article on the financing of the Laos-China railway with a Chinese government loan.
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Infrastructure Development in Lao PDR
This report aims to provide an overall situation of the infrastructure development in Lao PDR through a review of the infrastructure development process in the country. The pape...