programme for rural water supply and sanitation in the context of the rural Mekong Delta in Vietnam. It is concluded that the …The rural population of the Mekong Delta is facing increasing problems due to the contamination of domestic water …

-indebtedness between rural households in Thailand and Vietnam. We identify socio-economic determinants for rural households in Thailand and … Vietnam by decomposing differences into those attributable to household characteristics and those due to economic environments … characteristics. While in Vietnam poorer households are less likely to engage in borrowing in Thailand a higher share of similar type …

. It also explores the role of microfinance in supporting the utilization of the trade facilitation initiatives. The role … of microfinance in this context is to complement trade facilitation measures in order to allow the poor to benefit from … facilitation under the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) programme of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Thailand has implemented …