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2014 Nutrition country profile: Thailand

January, 2014
Thailand
property
Factsheet
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A 2007 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Vietnam

January, 2010
Vietnam, Asia
property
This paper documents a Vietnam Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for the year 2007. The national SAM is based on newly estimated supply-use tables, national accounts, state budgets, and balance of payments. The SAM reconciles these data using cross-entropy estimation techniques. The final SAM is a detailed representation of Vietnam’s economy. It separates 63 activities and commodities; rural/urban labor by different education levels; and households by rural/urban areas and farm/nonfarm expenditure quintiles.
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Agricultural diversification and rural industrialization as a strategy for rural income growth and poverty reduction in Indochina and Myanmar

Reports & Research
January, 1999
Myanmar
property
poverty
The purpose of this paper is to understand to what extent such a strategy is appropriate for the low income rice-based countries of the Indochina-Myanmar Region1 (IMR). On the one hand, the arguments in favor of agricultural diversification and agrofood based rural industrialization seem even more pressing than for the lower-middle income countries of Southeast Asia.
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Agriculture-based development

Reports & Research
January, 2000
Vietnam
agriculture
property
development
As in most low-income countries, the majority of the poor population in Viet Nam is found in rural areas, where agriculture provides the primary means of livelihood. It has been argued that an agriculture-based development (ABD) strategy is more appropriate for Viet Nam at the present time than both import-substitution and export-led industrialization, considering its effectiveness in generating income opportunities, directly and indirectly, for the rural population.
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Allocative efficiency of shrimp traders in Indonesia

January, 2013
Indonesia
Land & Investments
land markets
Working paper
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Are experience and schooling complementary?

Reports & Research
January, 2003
Thailand
urban areas
"This paper models the assimilation process of migrants and shows evidence of the complementarity between their destination experience and upon-arrival human capital. Bayesian learning and dynamics of matching are modeled and empirically assessed, using panel data of wages from the Bangkok labor market in Thailand. The analysis incorporates (1) the heterogeneity of technologies and products, characteristic of urban labor markets, (2) imperfect information on migrants' types and skill demanded in the markets, and (3) migrants' optimal learning over time.
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Between conservationism, eco-populism and developmentalism

January, 2005
Asia, Indonesia, Thailand
property
"The present paper analyzes the role of discourse in conflicts concerning nature conservation in tropical countries. We focus on the contested question as to whether and to which extent local communities should be allowed to live and use resources inside protected areas.
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Catalyzing collective action to address natural resource conflict

Lessons from Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2011
South-Eastern Asia, Asia, Cambodia
Land Conflicts
land conflicts
fisheries
This paper reports on outcomes and lessons learned from a 15-month initiative aimed at strengthening collective action to address natural resource conflict in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake. Employing the Appreciation-Influence-Control (AIC) model of participatory stakeholder engagement, the initiative aimed in particular to build collective understanding of the sources of vulnerability in fisheries livelihoods and to catalyze efforts to support resilience in this valuable and productive socialecological system.
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Collective action to secure property rights for the poor

A case study in Jambi Province, Indonesia

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2008
South-Eastern Asia, Indonesia
Forest Tenure
natural resources management
forest land
property rights
research
poverty
This study presents an approach to analyzing decentralized forestry and natural resource management and land property rights issues, and catalyzing collective action among villages and district governments. It focuses on understanding the current policies governing local people's access to property rights and decision making processes, and learning how collective action among community groups and interaction among stakeholders can enhance local people's rights over lands, resources, and policy processes for development.
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Common-pool resources, livelihoods, and resilience

Critical challenges for governance in Cambodia

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2011
Asia, South-Eastern Asia, Cambodia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
Forest Tenure
fisheries
food security
forestry
natural resources management
Common-pool resource management is a critical element in the interlocked challenges of food security, nutrition, poverty reduction, and environmental sustainability. This paper examines strategic policy choices and governance challenges facing Cambodia‘s forests and fisheries, the most economically important subsectors of agriculture that rely on common-pool resources. It then outlines policy priorities for institutional development to achieve improvements in implementing these goals.