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  • Borderlines: Vietnam's booming furniture industry and timber smuggling in the Mekong Region

    This report contains new information from field investigations carried out by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)and its partner Telapak. It exposes how the rapid...

  • Water governance systems in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam

    This is the report of Mekong project 4 on water governance: Challenge Program for Water and Food Mekong. The analysis report explored the key challenges and weaknesses in...

  • Measurement to Assess the Effectiveness of System-level and SDG Investing

    The report examines how investors can chart a course to assess system-level issues (like those contained in the SDGs) appropriate for their specific situation, and then...

  • Education: Distribution of Enrolment by Field of Study: Tertiary Education

    The demand for higher education continues to grow as universities compete globally to attract students. But are students opting for private or public institutions? To what...

  • Education: Gross Graduation Ratio

    The demand for higher education continues to grow as universities compete globally to attract students. But are students opting for private or public institutions? To what...

  • Illiterate Population

    Despite the steady rise in literacy rates over the past 50 years, there are still 750 million illiterate adults around the world, most of whom are women. These numbers produced...

  • World Inequality Database on Education

    The World Inequality Database on Education (WIDE) brings together data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), national household...

  • Mekong-India Economic Corridor (Concept Paper)

    The Mekong-India Economic Corridor (MIEC) involves integrating the four Greater Mekong Countries viz. Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam (here-in after referred as Mekong...

  • Ecosystems in the Greater Mekong: Past trends, current status, future possibilities

    The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS: Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and Yunnan and Guangxi in China) is undergoing unprecedented changes. Many of these are...

  • Between the Plough and the Pick Informal, artisanal and small-scale mining in the contemporary world

    Between the Plough and the Pick deepens our understanding of informal, artisanal and small-scale mining, popularly known as ASM. The book engages with wider scholarly...

  • Global Multidimensional Poverty Index

    The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is an international measure of acute poverty covering over 100 developing countries. It complements traditional income-based...

  • The Ramsar Convention Manual, 6th edition

    The Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran, 1971) is an intergovernmental treaty whose mission is “the conservation and wise use of all wetlands through local, regional and...

  • Defintion of Forests: A Review

    The definition of word "Forest" differs from region to region, and country to country based on the objectives of management, land use, vegetation type, composition, altitude,...

  • Mysterious Mekong: New Species Discoveries 2012-2013

    An extraordinary 367 new species were discovered in the Greater Mekong in 2012 and 2013. Among the species newly described by scientists are 290 plants, 24 fish, 21 amphibians,...

  • Forests and Forestry in the Greater Mekong Subregion to 2020

    In the 12 years since the first Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study was completed in 1998, the region has experienced tremendous changes in nearly every aspect. These...

  • World Development Indicators: Deforestation and Biodiversity

    As threats to biodiversity mount, the international community is increasingly focusing on conserving diversity. This comprehensive dataset presents the most current and accurate...

  • List of Provinces for ODM target countries (ISO-3166-2)

    Provincial codes for Thailand, Myanmar, Lao, Vietnam and Cambodia, provided by ISO-3166-2 as well as Federal Information Processing Standard (FIDS-10-4) and Geopolitical...

  • National Footprint Accounts

    This is a shareable data set, accessed from the Global Happy Planet Index under a creative commons license. It contains the data used to calculate this index. The 2017 version...

  • Swidden, Rubber and Carbon: Can REDD+ work for people and the environment in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia

    Swidden (also called shifting cultivation) has long been the dominant farming system in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia (MMSEA). Today the ecological bounty of this region is...

  • World Bank Country and Lending Groups

    The current (2018) classification of countries by Gross National Income (GNI) per capita used by the World Bank to defined their lending policies in XLS format