Skip to content

2,555 datasets found

Country: mm

Filter Results
  • Greater Mekong Subregion power trade and interconnection: 2 decades of cooperation

    This publication is a historical summary of progress made in energy cooperation in the GMS since the beginning of the economic cooperation program in 1992. It highlights a...

  • Annual rates of lightning fatalities by country

    This study builds on an earlier study on the worldwide casualty toll from lightning. The present paper synthesizes data that are available on lightning deaths by country. It...

  • The research on the cross-border transportation infrastructure: Phase 2

    In 2005 and 2006, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) researched the global progress of regionalization and the impacts of cross-border transport. The present study...

  • World marriage patterns 2000

    Data on marriage patterns for all countries. Indicators include average age at first marriage/singulate mean age at marriage (SMAM); the proportions of ever-married persons aged...

  • Doing business 2015. Going beyond efficiency

    This report is the 12th in a series of annual reports measuring the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. The report presents quantitative...

  • The business case for social and environmental safeguards in infrastructure lending

    A presentation outlining the business case for social and environmental safeguards in infrastructure lending. The benefits and costs of safeguards and the scale of...

  • Gendering cross-border networks in the Greater Mekong Subregion: Drawing invisible routes to Thailand

    This article discusses human trafficking within the GMS in relation to the strengthened inter-state economic and infrastructural connectivity, taking the life history of sex...

  • Alternative development or business as usual? China's opium substitution policy in Burma and Laos

    This brief discusses the effectiveness of China's opium substitution policy. A significant amount of opium and heroin on the market in China originates in northern Burma,...

  • Submission to the US State Dept on US reporting requirements on responsible investment in Burma (Myanmar)

    A submission by the Institute for Human Rights and Business regarding the US Government’s Reporting Requirements on Responsible Investment in Burma. IHRB warmly welcomes the...

  • Community engagement key to business success in Myanmar

    This article argues that community engagement and international standards of corporate social responsibility are key to the success of petroleum projects in Myanmar.

  • Conference report: Burma/Myanmar. Business and human rights: Setting standards for responsible business

    This report provides proceedings of the Burma/Myanmar, Business and Human Rights conference, held 7-9 November, 2012. The report summarises the key issues discussed, including...

  • Report: Asia Pacific regional workshop in preparation for the first global meeting of the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum at IFAD

    This report outlines key findings and recommendations of the Asia Pacific regional workshop in preparation for the first global meeting of the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum at IFAD....

  • Dialogue, opportunities and risks in business-to-community and business-to-business relationships in Myanmar/Burma

    A report of two multi-stakeholder workshops on responsible investment in Myanmar. The first workshop focused on developing good practice in business-community relations; and key...

  • East Asia’s changing urban landscape: Measuring a decade of spatial growth

    This study attempted to provide systematic data on the scale and form of urban expansion in East Asia through empirical observation. (China, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and...

  • Re-examining the role of transport infrastructure in trade, regional growth and governance: Comparing the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) and Central Eastern Europe (CEE)

    This article explores the role of transport infrastructures in regional economic growth by comparing Central Eastern Europe (supported by the European Union structural and...

  • Hubs and spokes emerging patterns of intra-Mekong trade and investment

    This working paper analyses intra-Mekong trade and investment. The author argues that new patterns of trade relationship are emerging which can be likened to hubs and spokes, in...

  • Education statistics, Mekong countries

    Education statistics for Mekong countries, sourced from Unicef's State of the World's Children Report 2015 statistical tables. Indicators include youth literacy rate; number of...

  • China and Yunnan economic relations with Myanmar and the Kachin state: powering the peace process

    A paper about economic relations between China and Myanmar and their impact on the peace process. The paper covers the background of relations between the two countries, and...

  • Electricity in Myanmar: The missing prerequisite for development

    A paper about electricity in Myanmar and its effect on development. Electricity consumption per capita in Myanmar is among the lowest in Asia and had been growing very slowly...

  • Electricity demand and supply in Myanmar

    A paper about electricity demand and supply in Myanmar. This paper provides an update and expansion on the paper “Electricity in Myanmar: The Missing Prerequisite for...

You can also access this registry using the API (see API Docs).