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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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ASEAN Guidelines for Special Economic Zones (SEZs) Development and Collaboration
To help policy makers address these challenges, the Guidelines below outline good policy practices for SEZ policies in ASEAN.
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ITTO Strategic Plan 2013-2018
International Tropical Timber Organization's strategic five-year plan.
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Safeguarding People and the Environment in Chinese Investments
The aim of this guide is to help civil society organizations and community advocates gain an improved understanding of Chinese investors and China-led finance institutions and t...
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Reckless Development: The IFC’s Dodgy Deals in Southeast Asia
Report on financial chain mapping on financiers of infrastructure projects in Southeast Asia.
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Country Review Report of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Review by Lebanon and Italy of the implementation by Vietnam of articles 15 – 42 of Chapter III. “Criminalization and law enforcement” and articles 44 – 50 of Chapter IV. “Inter...
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New Challenges and Strategies in Defense of Land and Territory
What is happening with the land and natural wealth around the world, and to the people who depend on them? How are people responding to these trends, threats, and challenges?In ...
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Impacts of the Laos Log and Sawnwood Export Bans
In May 2016, the Government of Lao PDR enacted a Prime Ministerial Order (PM15) which, along with other commitments, aimed to help control the country’s high deforestation rates...
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Underlying causes of deforestation in the Mekong region
This paper discusses the relationship between deforestation and development, as well as causation in deforestation. The paper then describes the situation in the Mekong, focusin...
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Letters from the Mekong : site visit to Laos’ first two mainstream dam projects, executive summary
Examines the current status of mitigation efforts at Laos’ Xayaburi and Don Sahong dam projects on the mainstream of the lower Mekong River. The report is based on visits to Tha...
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Improving forest governance in the Mekong region
This report identifies opportunities for regional activities to improve forest governance and combat logging in the Mekong countries. The report is based on a series of workshop...
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Overview of illegal logging in Laos and related trans-boundary trade
A presentation giving an overview of the timber trade and illegal logging in Laos. The presentation includes main reasons for illegal logging in Laos, the scope, and timber flow...
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Mineral production and value 2014 and 2016
Data taken from the World Mining Congress on production and value of minerals mined in the Lower Mekong in 2014 and 2016. Compiled for an interactive visualization used on the O...
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International standards: Right to information
It is increasingly being recognised that governments hold information not for themselves but, rather, on behalf of the public and that, as a result, public bodies should provide...
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Common guidance for the identification of High Conservation Value
This document builds on a series of Good Practice guides for High Conservation Value (HCV) practitioners and auditors. Over the past few years, as global HCV definitions are ame...
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Global Climate Risk Index
The Global Climate Risk Index analyses to what extent countries have been affected by the impacts of weather-related loss events (storms, floods, heat waves etc.). Updated an...
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Evaluation of the EU FLEGT Action Plan (Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade) 2004-2014
A team of eight experts has conducted an independent evaluation of eleven years (2004-2014) of implementation of the EU Action Plan on Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trad...
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REDD+ Readiness: An Introduction
A series of slides from the UN-REDD program describing the REDD+ Readiness process