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1. Library Resource

   

   Taking Stock, December 2016

   An Update on Vietnam's Recent Economic Developments

   Informes e investigaciones

   Recursos y herramientas de capacitación

   Diciembre, 2016

   Viet Nam, Asia oriental, Oceanía

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Utilización de la tierra

   Cambio climático

   Over recent decades, Vietnam’s agricultural sector has made enormous progress, realizing major gains in productivity and output and contributing to national goals related to food security, poverty reduction, social stability, and trade. Nevertheless, there are growing concerns related to the quality and sustainability of Vietnam’s agricultural growth and related patterns of development.

2. Library Resource

   

   Environmental Risks and Poverty

   Analyzing Geo-Spatial and Household Data from Vietnam

   Informes e investigaciones

   Documentos de política y resúmenes

   Julio, 2016

   Viet Nam, Asia oriental, Oceanía

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Cambio climático

   Medio ambiente

   Pobreza

   This study combines high-resolution, geo-spatial data and household data from the Vietnam Living Standard Measurement Surveys in 2010, 2012, and 2014 to investigate the relationship between environmental risks and poverty.

3. Library Resource

   

   Seaweed Aquaculture for Food Security, Income Generation and Environmental Health in Tropical Developing Countries

   Informes e investigaciones

   Documentos de política y resúmenes

   Julio, 2016

   Tanzania, Japón, Malasia, Madagascar, China, Namibia, Indonesia, Australia, República Popular Democrática de Corea, Argentina, República de Corea, Sri Lanka, Brasil, Nueva Zelandia, América central, América Septentrional, Oceanía

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Tierra y Seguridad Alimentaria

   Seguridad alimentaría

   Cambio climático

   To meet carbon emissions targets, more than 30 countries have committed to boosting production of renewable resources from biological materials andconvert them into products such as food, animal feedand bioenergy. In a post-fossil-fuel world, an increasingproportion of chemicals, plastics, textiles, fuels and electricity will have to come from biomass, which takesup land. To maintain current consumption trends theworld will also need to produce 50–70 percent more foodby 2050, increasingly under drought conditions and onpoor soils.

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   Thailand Economic Monitor, June 2016

   Aging Society and Economy

   Informes e investigaciones

   Recursos y herramientas de capacitación

   Junio, 2016

   Tailandia, Asia oriental, Oceanía

   The Thai economy shows signs of a nascent recovery but faces challenges on the path toward a broad-based and sustained recovery. The Thai economy accelerated to 2.8 percent in 2015, compared to 0.9 percent in 2014, partly on the basis of government consumption and investment, and partly on declining imports. Tourism and private consumption have mildly recovered, whereas merchandise exports dropped in the last quarter of 2015.

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   A Country on the Move

   Domestic Migration in Two Regions of Myanmar

   Informes e investigaciones

   Recursos y herramientas de capacitación

   Diciembre, 2016

   Myanmar, Asia oriental, Oceanía

   In the last four years Myanmar’s economy has seen a slight shift away from agriculture toward industry and services. This may mark the beginning of a structural transformation away from a rural, agricultural economy toward a more urban, industrial and service-based economy. Urbanization and job creation in urban areas have the potential to have a significant impact on labor and mobility patterns, especially for the landless and land-poor workers that account for a large part of the rural workforce.

6. Library Resource

   

   Minimizing Ecological Damage from Road Improvement in Tropical Forests

   Informes e investigaciones

   Documentos de política y resúmenes

   Septiembre, 2016

   África, Asia oriental, Oceanía, América Latina y el Caribe

   A spatial econometric model is used to link road upgrading to forest clearing and biodiversity loss in the moist tropical forests of Bolivia, Cameroon, and Myanmar. Using 250-meter cells, the model estimates the relationship between the rate of forest clearing in a cell and its distance to the urban market, with explicit attention given to road quality and simultaneity, terrain elevation and slope, the agricultural opportunity value of the land, and its legal protection status.

7. Library Resource

   

   Myanmar

   Analysis of Farm Production Economics

   Informes e investigaciones

   Recursos y herramientas de capacitación

   Febrero, 2016

   Myanmar, Asia oriental, Oceanía

   Tierra y Seguridad Alimentaria

   Agricultores

   Seguridad alimentaría

   Pesca

   Agricultura contractual

   Sistemas de explotación

   This report was prepared by the World Bank in partnership with the Livelihoods and Food Security Multi-Donor Trust Fund (LIFT). Both the World Bank and the LIFT are actively involved in supporting Myanmar’s agriculture sector given its significance in poverty reduction and food security, and they both consider the lack of reliable farm data to be a significant constraint to designing effective programs and policies. This report fills some of the data gaps. In addition to presenting the collected data, the report offers the first analysis of these data.

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   Malaysia Economic Monitor, June 2016

   Leveraging Trade Agreements

   Informes e investigaciones

   Recursos y herramientas de capacitación

   Junio, 2016

   Malasia, Asia oriental, Oceanía

   Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

   Tenencia de Bosques

   Derechos de propiedad

   Desarrollo sostenible

   Desarrollo

   ciencias forestales

   Agricultura

   Posesión

   Medio ambiente

   Pesca

   Tierras

   The MEM is the World Bank's biannual flagship publication on Malaysia. It provides analysis of recent economic developments and the near-term outlook for Malaysia. Each publication also focuses on a special topic related to Malaysia's transformation into a high-income economy. Malaysia is at the forefront of a "new generation" of trade agreements that will shape trade and investment over the next decade.

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   Gender-Dimensions of Collective Forest Tenure Reform in China

   Informes e investigaciones

   Recursos y herramientas de capacitación

   Mayo, 2016

   China, Asia oriental, Oceanía

   Tierra y Género

   Derechos de propiedad

   Desarrollo de capacidad

   Derechos de tierras

   Agricultores

   Zonas urbanas

   Posesión

   Mujeres

   The reform of China's collectively owned forest land, began in 2008, is arguably the largest land-reform undertaking in modern times in terms of area and people affected. Under the reform, forest lands have been contracted to rural households, allowing them more independence in exercising their rights and interests in the forest lands, giving them more opportunities to improve family incomes, and creating incentives for them to cultivate, conserve, and manage forests. These lands are home to some 610 million people, many of them poor.

10. Library Resource

    

    Achieving Energy Savings by Intelligent Transportation Systems Investments in the Context of Smart Cities

    Informes e investigaciones

    Recursos y herramientas de capacitación

    Abril, 2016

    China, Asia oriental, Oceanía

    Tierra, Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente

    Utilización de la tierra

    Derechos de propiedad

    Cambio climático

    Faced with the challenge of providing adequate transport services with limited resources, cities have, for several decades, been investing in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). ITS utilize Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to make more efficient use of existing transport infrastructure with the aim of improving transport services and reducing congestion, accidents, and air pollution.