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  Effectiveness and challenges of three economic corridors of the Greater Mekong Sub-region

  Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organisation, Tokyo, 2005

  Since the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) program began in 1992, activities have expanded and flourished. The three economic corridors are composed of the East-West, North-South, and Southern; these are the most important parts of the flagship program.
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  Financing reforms for the Thai health card scheme

  Health Policy and Planning, 2000

  This paper, published in Health Policy and Planning, examines the health card scheme, a form of voluntary health insurance for farmers and informal sector workers, which has operated in Thailand since 1983. It evaluates changes in terms of financial management of the central funds from the schemes, administrative costs, and the operation of reinsurance.
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  Trade, foreign firms, and economic policy in Indonesian and Thai manufacturing

  East-West Center, 2005

  This paper examines the rapid growth and changing composition of manufactured exports in Indonesia and Thailand, and documents the importance of contributions of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) to export growth in the machinery industries.
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  First language first: community-based literacy programmes for minority language contexts in Asia

  Education Sector, UNESCO, 2005

  This comprehensive report is the outcome of the Regional Workshop on Mother Tongue/Bilingual Literacy Programmes for Ethnic Minorities held in Kunming, China (May 2004). This workshop presented findings from UNESCOs action research on using the mother tongue/bilingual approach in pilot literacy projects for ethnic minority communities.
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  FDI and growth: a causal relationship

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005

  This paper examines the causal relationship between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and economic growth by using an innovative econometric methodology to study the direction of causality between the two variables.
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  The return and reintegration of victims of trafficking from Cambodia to Thailand 01 July 2004 – 30 March 2005 and repatriation from Cambodia to Vietnam of Vietnamese victims of trafficking from 15 May 1999 – 30 March 2005

  Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation, Cambodia, 2005

  This report presents information and statistics compiled from an information database held at the Anti-trafficking and Reintegration Office within the Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation (MoSVY) – a documentation centre for information on returns and reintegration of trafficked Cambodia women and children from Thailand.
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  Southeast Asia Human Development Report 2005

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2004

  This report links the concepts of human development, regional economic integration and regional cooperation. It argues that the high level of disparity among countries within South East Asia can be attributed to variations in human resource development and differences in the quality of governance.
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  Communities can create their own water supply and sanitation

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Urban communities in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Angola are creating – and funding – their own water supply and sanitation services. Partnered with local governments they are covering large areas at much lower costs than conventional projects. To meet the Millennium target of sustainable access to safe drinking water, international agencies need to learn how to support such innovations.
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  MAP report 2005: male to male sex and HIV/AIDS in Asia

  Monitoring the AIDS Pandemic Network, 2005

  This publication, from the Monitoring the AIDS Pandemic (MAP) Network, reviews the situation of men who have sex with men (MSM) in Asia. The report summarises the key findings about the epidemiology of HIV and AIDS among Asian MSM and discusses the programmatic implications of these findings. Key findings show that in 2003, 17 per cent of MSM in Bangkok, Thailand were HIV positive.
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  Fuelling conflict: unsustainable forestry practices in Burma

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Burma is one of the most densely forested countries in the world. Patterns of forest use cause resentment amongst ethnic communities, who feel they do not receive fair benefits from this resource. State management of Burma’s forests allows Thai and Chinese logging companies to extract huge quantities of timber.

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