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  • Extreme weather events in developing countries and related injuries and mental health disorders - a systematic review

    Due to climate change, extreme weather events have an incremental impact on human health. Injuries and mental health disorders are a particular burden of disease, which is broad...

  • State of the Basin report 2018

    This State of the Basin Report 2018 assesses conditions within the Mekong basin and the impacts, both positive and negative, that developments and use of the water and related n...

  • SITUATION UPDATE No. 9 Effect of TS 11 (Son-Tinh) and Situation of Xe-Pien and Xenamnoy Dam, Lao PDR

    Due to monsoon season and heavy rainfall brought by TS 11 (Son-Tinh), 762 villages in 55 districts of 13 provinces have reported flooding as of 1 Aug 2018. This is a situation u...

  • Data and tools to integrate climate and environmental information into public health

    During the last 30 years, the development of geographical information systems and satellites for Earth observation has made important progress in the monitoring of the weather, ...

  • Cambodia Climate and Health Country Profile 2015

    The profiles gives a snapshot about the current and future impacts of climate change on human health in Cambodia. It discusses Cambodia's current status regarding climate change...

  • Beneficial Ownership: Tackling Hidden Company Ownership Through Myanmar's EITI Process

    This paper focuses on a new and ground-breaking provision of EITI: a requirement for the identities of the real owners – the ‘beneficial owners’ – of extractive industry compani...

  • Sharing the Wealth: A Roadmap for Distributing Myanmar’s Natural Resource Revenues

    This discussion paper outlines options available under the current legal structure to help the new leadership fulfill its commitment to decentralize natural resource revenues. I...

  • Agriculture, natural resources,and environment initial sector assessment, strategy, and road map

    A report from the Asian Development Bank on the Myanmar government's plan for addressing priority needs in the agriculture, natural resources, and environment (ANRE) sector. Pub...

  • Natural Resources and Sub - national Governments in Myanmar: Key considerations for wealth sharing

    The research presented in this discussion paper provides an overview of the current role of subnational government in natural resource management andrevenue collection in Myanma...

  • Lao Environment Outlook 2012

    Ministry of National Resources and Environment (MONRE), formerly Water Resources and Environment Administration (WREA) recognizes the need in having scientific data and good ind...

  • Lao Agriculture Commercialization Project (LACP): Environmental and social management framework (draft) for Lao PDR

    This Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) for Lao PDR will be applied to all investments to be financed by the World Bank for technical and/or financial support ...

  • State of Water: Laos

    The web page offers the profiles of water resources in Lao PDR.

  • Profile on Environmental and Social Considerations in Lao PDR

    In 2010, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) announced its new JICA guidelines for environmental and social considerations. The guidelines present JICAs objectives and...

  • The Geology and Mineral Resources of Lao PDR

    The presentation slides offer an overview of mineral resources in Lao PDR along with the exploitation towards the investment and development.

  • Lao PDR: Climate and Health Country Profile 2015

    The profiles provide a snapshot of information about the current and future impacts of climate change on human health, current policy responses in Lao PDR. They also highlight t...

  • Solid Waste Management in Laos

    This presentation gives a profile of solid waste and management in Laos.

  • Love Laos, Keep it Clean.

    The web page give an overview of solid waste and waste management in Lao PDR.

  • Laos - Country partnership framework for the period FY2017-FY2021

    This document presents the World Bank Group (WBG) Country Partnership Framework (CPF) with the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) for FY 2017-2021. The WBG CPF aims at su...

  • 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...

  • Natural Resources of Myanmar (Burma): Ownership, Management, Revenue Sharing and Impacts

    This research paper explores the natural resource governance Myanmar specifically the governance of oil and gas extraction in Rakhine State and jade extraction in Kachin State t...

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