The paper analyses the current and possible future development of social protection systems in three Mekong countries …: Cambodia, Lao PDR and Viet Nam. The three countries are at differing levels of development but face a number of shared … from an embryonic system in Laos to an ‘emerging’ system in Viet Nam. Following an overview of the three countries and …

In this paper, the author would like to uncover challenges to Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle and suggest … key policies to address them. The first section of this paper will give an introduction on the Vietnam provinces (VDTA) of …

The Third Thai-Lao Friendship over the Mekong officially opened on 11th November 2011 facilitates the cross …-border trade along Asian Highway 15 and Asian Highway 131 between Northeast Thailand, Central Lao PDR and North Central Vietnam … among countries in Greater Mekong Sub-region has been much facilitated. The success of EWEC encourages local governments in …

This paper describes how the social capital of rice farmers of the Mekong delta of Vietnam - manifested in the …

This study aims to test the existence of J-curve phenomenon in Laos’s economy using quarterly data over the period of … Laos. The impact of real depreciation of the Lao kip on Lao trade balance is insignificant in long run. In short-run, real … depreciation has inverse impact on Lao’s trade balance. The long-run trade balance is determined by domestic income. …

SEZs in Laos; (b) it assesses the relevance of those results to the objectives of sustainable economic growth and job …

Laos benefits from the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Area (AANZFTA). The Agreement has eliminated tariffs on … 90% of Australia’s and New Zealand’s imports, with the remaining tariff lines to be removed by 2020. For Laos, it … services; and guarantees equal treatment to foreign investments. These preferential arrangements offer Laos significant …

. The aim of this paper is to test two hypotheses: ‘supply-leading’ hypothesis and ‘demand-following’ hypothesis, using Laos …

China is the second most important export destination of Laos, and export growth to that market has far outpaced … have a huge competitive advantage in agricultural exports over countries that are not part of the Agreement. - Laos …