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Maintaining High Growth: Cambodia Economic Update
Cambodia continues to enjoy robust growth, albeit at a slightly slower pace. Real growth in 2014 is estimated to have reached 7.0 percent. The garment sector, together with cons...
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Asian Development Outlook 2015: Financing Asia's Future Growth
To achieve the steady growth envisaged in this report, policy makers in developing Asia need to be vigilant of potential risks. Risks to Asia’s growth prospects could come fro...
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Women in the Workforce: An Unmet Potential in Asia and the Pacific
This report shows that the low labor force participation of women is intimately related to how they allocate time between market and nonmarket activities. Indeed, in deciding wh...
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ABC of SCP: Clarifying Concepts on Sustainable Consumption and Production
This publication “ABC of SCP” aims to clarify the main terms and concepts related to sustainable consumption and production, and other terms associated with sustainable developm...
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Bamboo fabric: A study of using thick bamboo fiber for producing and developing Thai textiles
This research investigates the use of bamboo fibre in Thai textile production. The authors explore the industry's background, current situation and challenges, and investigate h...
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Cambodia: Rapid Growth with Institutional Constraints
This paper examines Cambodia’s socioeconomic development since the early 1990s peace settlement. The country’s economic growth has arguably been the fastest among post-conflict ...
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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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Climate change in the Lower Mekong Basin, an analysis of economic values at risk
This report draws from a 2013 USAID analysis of climate change impacts in the Lower Mekong Basin that forecasts more extreme temperatures, rainfall, weather events and sea level...
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Summary and Overview of World Wildlife Crime Report
Summary on report on global wildlife trafficking by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
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Women in Fisheries in Asia
This paper begins with a review of the cultural and political background of selected Asian countries (Bangladesh,Cambodia, Kuwait, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, the Lao PDR, Ma...
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Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Staff Report for the 2013 Article IV Consultation--Debt Sustainability Analysis
This Debt Sustainability Analysis continues to classify the risk of debt distress as moderate, but Lao P.D.R. is on the verge of a transition to high risk, with heightened vulne...
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Cambodia Public Debt Statistical Bulletin Vol. 4
The Public Debt Statistical Bulletin covers the data in the first semester of 2017 on public external debt, public domestic debt, government lending and on-lending, public insti...
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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, writte...
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Basic statistics 2015 (indicators of the Millennium Development Goals)
Basic Statistics 2015 covers the indicators of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) such as the proportion of population living below $1.25 (PPP) a day, infant mortality rate...
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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 H...
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Livelihoods and food security on the Mekong River
An analysis paper by Future Directions International on livelihood considerations and food security in the Lower Mekong countries, published in May 2016.
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Small island tourism development plan implementation: The case of Koh Tao, Thailand
This article examines the implementation of tourism development plans in Thailand, focusing on the island of Koh Tao as a case study. It examines the applicability of plan imple...
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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 variable...
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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 be...
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Choosing survival: Finding a way to overcome current economic and political quagmires in Myanmar
This paper describes the current challenges Myanmar faces to shift to a system more inclusive of multiple interest groups. The authors provide background on the situation in Mya...