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Vietnam-Denmark: Transformation of a Partnership – Synthesis Report
Vietnam was a priority country for Danish development cooperation from 1993 to 2015. During 15 years from 2000 to 2015, Denmark disbursed more than DKK 5.5 billion in official d...
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Decree on compensation and resettlement management in development projects 2016
This Decree provides principles, regulations and standards on the management, monitoring of compensation of losses and the management of resettlement activities in order to prop...
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Complementarities between the ASEAN Community Vision 2025 and the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: A Framework for Action
Building on Thailand’s Revised Information Paper/Matrix: Compilation of Possible Complementarities between the ASEAN Community Blueprints 2025 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainabl...
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Development Cooperation and Partnerships Report
As a newly classified Lower-Middle Income Country (LMIC), Cambodia is seeking to consolidate and maintain its impressive track record of socio-economic progress. But realizing C...
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Transport and logistics in the Greater Mekong Sub‐region
A report exploring transport and logistics in the GMS and potential opportunities for Dutch involvement. The report covers economic corridors in the GMS, infrastructure and logi...
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Mekong Delta plan: long-term vision and strategy for a safe, prosperous and sustainable delta
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Kingdom of the Netherlands have signed a Strategic Partnership Arrangement on Climate Change Adaptation and Water Management (October 2...
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Speech (to Australian Parliament): Mekong River Dam
Transcript of a speech by Senator Lee Rhiannon on the commencement of construction by Laos and Thailand of the Xayaburi dam. Rhiannon highlights the connection of these developm...
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China–Myanmar energy cooperation and its regional implications
Explores the driving forces behind the China-Myanmar oil and gas pipeline project and its broader objectives. The author investigates whether pipelines can deepen regional econo...
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Asia brief: Filling the rice basket in Lao PDR, partnership results
The Asia Briefing Paper Series aims to inform the development practitioners and the public about new innovations, results and impacts of Swiss development cooperation in Asia. T...
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Catalyzing subnational development in Myanmar, balancing local preferences with national and sector policy
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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Empowering a new civil society: Pact's Cambodia community outreach project
Pact initiated the Cambodia Community Outreach Project (CCOP) at the beginning of a decade that witnessed fundamental change at all levels of Cambodian society. This would...
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A study of Japanese official development assistance (ODA) for educational development in post genocide Cambodia
This thesis aims to investigate whether Japanese foreign aid to Cambodian educational development is truly being positive peace or whether it can be said to be an indirect cause...
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Too much, too soon? The dilemma of foreign aid to Myanmar/Burma
A report exploring whether the outpouring of foreign aid to Myanmar expected in the medium term will benefit the country. The report begins with a brief discussion of the...
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China–Myanmar comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership: A regional threat?
This paper analyses the China-Myanmar ‘comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership’ in the framework of China’s diplomacy in the post- Cold War era and concludes that the...