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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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Public-Private Partnerships For Public Investment Project Management 2016 – 2020
This Policy Paper has been prepared by senior level technical team of the Ministry of Economy and Finance with inputs obtained from regional consultative forums as well as from...
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Cambodia investment climate statement 2015
Cambodia has experienced rapid economic growth over the last decade. Cambodian gross domestic product (GDP) grew at an average annual rate of over eight percent between 2000 and...
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ADB and the Climate Investment Funds: Climate Change Innovation and Action in Asia and the Pacific
This document presents ADB’s experience in developing Climate Investment Funds (CIF) programs and highlights innovative transformations expected from or already achieved by ADB...
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Economic, social and environmental impacts of investments in mining
This issues brief series is developed by the Poverty‐ Environment Initiative of Lao PDR to address poverty and environment issues in the current development and national...
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Behind China’s $1 Trillion Plan to Shake Up the Economic Order
The media article is about China's investment in other countries and the role of its economic and geopolitical influence globally.
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An investor’s guide to responsible development: An MPE primer on investment in the Mekong Region
Quality investment depends on everyone working together to ensure socially and environmentally responsible practices. There’s an increasing awareness among government, business...
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"We are feeling safe about our land now" GIZ Land Program Laos: Assessing the contribution to changes in land use, investments in land and perceived tenure security
For the past decade, GIZ has supported participatory land use planning, land registration and land titling as a vehicle for sustainable rural development in Lao PDR. Following a...
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Bankrolling India’s dirty dozen
An analysis paper by Dustin Hoasa on the World Bank Group's lending practices, part 2 in Inclusive Development International (IDI)'s 'Outsourcing Development' series. Published...
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Outsourcing development: lifting the veil on the World Bank Group’s lending through financial intermediaries
The introductory installment of Inclusive Development International (IDI)'s 'Outsourcing Development' series on the World Bank Group's financial sector lending practices,...
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“Disaster for us and the planet": how the IFC is quietly funding a coal boom
An analysis paper on how the World Bank's International Finance Corporation has invested significantly in coal globally despite a stated ban on such activities. Written by...
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Owning the outcomes: Time to make the World Bank Group’s financial intermediary investments more accountable
A briefing paper written by Natalie Bugalski from Inclusive Development International in collaboration with Oxfam International, on the lack of accountability around the World...
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Trying to follow the Money: Possibilities and limits of investor transparency in Southeast Asia’s rush for “available” land
This study uses publicly available financial and spatial data to examine the geography of land-intensive investment in Southeast Asia, and to identify the limits imposed by...
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An overview of large scale investments in the Mekong
This paper presents an overview of large scale investments trends in the Mekong region, the regulatory and policy changes designed to facilitate large-scale foreign and domestic...
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Competitiveness between road and inland water transport: the case of Myanmar
A research paper on competitiveness in the transport sector in Myanmar, specifically between road and inland water transport. Authored by Kichan Nam and Elly Win, published by...
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Master plan on ASEAN connectivity
The Associaton of Southeast Asian Nations' master plan for increasing connectivity in the region published in 2010, developed with impetus from the 15th ASEAN Summit in Cha-am...
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Comment of EarthRights International on the Paperwork Reduction Act review for proposed reporting requirements on responsible investment in Burma
A submission from EarthRights International regarding the Paperwork Review Act approval process for the reporting requirements. On July 11, 2012, the U.S. Government announced...
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Đầu tư vào tài nguyên thiên nhiên: Vai trò của Trung Quốc ở khu vực Đông Dương 2009
Bài viết này tóm lược thảo luận chính sách của dự án nghiên cứu "Tìm hiểu Trung Quốc dưới vai trò một nhà hoạt động ở khu vực Đông Dương" do Quỹ Heinrich Boll Stiftung,...
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Key success factor of special economic zone for Thailand
The purpose of this paper is to identify the key factors in the success of Thailand's Special Economic Zone (SEZ). The authors use mathematical modelling and analyse 11...
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Cambodia’s special economic zones
This study examines the role of special economic zones (SEZs) in Cambodia, and finds that the SEZs have attracted significant levels of foreign investment that would not have...