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As part of its efforts to improve the rural economies of its client countries, the World Bank is supporting programs to strengthen land administration and undertake land reform. Land administration projects can include a variety of activities. Usually, the most expensive and that which is most...
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East Asia is one of the most important areas of tropical forests worldwide. Considerable concern has arisen that the East Asian economic crisis would result in a further worsening of the already high pressures experienced by the region’s forests. This report examines the available evidence on...
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Adequate infrastructure has long been viewed as an important factor in economic development. Based on regressions covering 76 advanced and emerging market economies, this paper estimates the impact of infrastructure and investment on income distribution. It finds that better infrastructure, both...
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-border trade along Asian Highway 15 and Asian Highway 131 between Northeast Thailand, Central Lao PDR and North Central Vietnam … corridors with EWEC. The basic criteria for these corridors is the connectivity of Thai-Lao PDR or Lao PDR-Vietnam border gates …, major cities in Northeast Thailand, South and Central Lao PDR, and North Central and Mid Central Vietnam, ports in Vietnam …
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. Trade with Vietnam was likely the main reason for short-term price fluctuations, while trade with Thailand affects medium … Vietnam simultaneously. The effectiveness of government policy measures has been mixed. There is a need to closely coordinate …
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Unlike most existing studies, this paper examines the location choices of MNEs in developing countries. Specifically, we investigate the location choices of Japanese MNEs among East Asian developing countries by estimating a four-stage nested logit model at the province level. Noteworthy results...
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-Mekong trade of machinery parts and components, especially in the growth of their two-way trade between Thailand and Vietnam … sales trends between industrial estates in Thailand and Vietnam. …
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distributional analysis, based on stochastic dominance orders, can help. Using data from six rural provinces of Thailand and Vietnam …
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supplier data in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Evidence from interconnected firms within a production chain …
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