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Development or Destruction? The Human Rights Impacts of Hydropower Development on Villagers in Southeast Myanmar
Myanmar needs to acknowledge and address a number of salient concerns if it going to use hydropower to meet its future electricity needs. Most of Myanmar’s abundant hydropower r...
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Trafficking in persons from Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar to Thailand
This report covers human trafficking within Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar. Afterwards, further observations and intervention methods are covered.
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Catalyzing Subnational Development in Myanmar
This paper aims to extract lessons from development partners’ engagement in Myanmar to offer suggestions for improved subnational governance and balanced regional development. T...
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Comments on Draft report on Myanmars National REDD+ Strategy
In March, 2018, the Myanmar REDD+ program released its National REDD+ strategy draft report. Forest Trends has provided the following comments to the report authors in hopes tha...
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Myanmar Economic Bulletin: Volume 1, Number 1
Welcome to the first issue of the Myanmar Economic Bulletin, the flagship publication of the Myanmar Development Institute (MDI). A think-tank established by the notification fr...
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Promoting Transparency and Monitoring of Contracts
Members of parliament play a key role in monitoring the implementation of oil, gas, and mineral contracts. Public disclosure of such contracts is a critical prerequisite for p...
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Alternatives to Land Grabbing: Smallholder Engagement in Commodity Booms in Southeast Asia
Given the widespread smallholder impulse to engage in commodity booms in Southeast Asia and the potential for this engagement to offer a more inclusive development pathway than ...
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Annual Country Reviews 2018-19 [Mekong Land Research Forum]
The Annual Country Reviews reflect upon current land issues in the Mekong Region, and has been produced for researchers, practitioners and policy advocates operating in the fiel...
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Chinese Agriculture in Southeast Asia: Investment, Aid and Trade in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar
"Since the adoption of China's 'going out' strategy, Chinese enterprises have been strongly encouraged to engage overseas in a range of sectors, including agriculture. This has ...
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A New Dawn for Equitable Growth in Myanmar? Making the Private Sector Work for Small-Scale Agriculture
The new wave of political reforms have set Myanmar on a road to unprecedented economic expansion, but, without targeted policy efforts and regulation to even the playing field, ...
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Labor force participation and unemployment by gender and age group
A breakdown of labor force participation rates and unemployment rates by gender and age groups according to the 2014 Population and Household Census.
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Agribusiness Models for Inclusive Growth in Myanmar: Diagnosis and Ways Forward
Myanmar is at a crossroad. Given high levels of landlessness and land inequality and low productivity of most small and medium-scale farmers (SMFs), the country is searching for...
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License_Pyi Daung Su Thar Co., Ltd._YMT-257
Approval for small-scale gold extraction issued by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation for the period from 4 Dec 2016 to 17 Jan 2017. But EMP is pre...
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Aung Htun Linn Shein Win Mining & Refinery Co., Ltd._Initial Environmental Examination Reports
These Initial Environmental Examination Reports are prepared to extend the period of each license of gold extraction in site: SGU-4A and SGU-4B in Pyin Oo Lwin District, Mandala...
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Shwe Soon Thaik Co., Ltd.
The company is set up in 2013 and this Environmental Management Plan is prepared to extend the license period- 1 year, for gold extraction at site: KWM-109 in Myitkyina Town, Ka...
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ASEAN Key Figures 2018
The ASEAN Key Figures 2018 is the inaugural issue of a new publication by the Statistics Division (ASEAN stats) of the ASEAN Secretariat. The publication provides rea...
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Five-Year Strategic Plan for Health Information System in Myanmar (2011-2015)
The Health Information System Strategic Plan (2011-2015) is the first strategic plan for Health Information System in Myanmar. Before that all activities conducted for strengthe...
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Customary Land Management and Legal Frameworks: Experiences from Around the World
This purpose of this paper is to present a brief summary of the issues and current situations facing ethnic and indigenous communities around the world that are using a customar...
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Briefing Paper on Research on Agricultural Investments
Agricultural investments are crucial to improve productivity and to raise the incomes and food security. Investments by small-holder farmers themselves are the main source of ag...
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The Farmland Law
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