Vietnam surface water system includes all of the water in rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, and wetlands, as well as the ocean, in which river water resources are the most important that are widely used in livelihood and production. River near Sa Pa, Vietnam, a frontier town and ...

Adding to and upgrading the Mekong region's infrastructure has been given a high priority by governments, development partners and regional banks. the shortfall in the estimated amount that needs to be spent by 2020 is being addressed by several new initiatives and strategies in the ...

The combined, estimated population for The Lower Mekong was 237.7 million in 2015. Vietnam had The largest population at 93.5 million, while Laos had The smallest at 6.8 million. in line with Their various stages of development, higher income countries like Thailand have lower population ...

International aid plays a significant but decreasIng role In Vietnam’s national expenditure. For example In 2013, official development assistance (ODA) as a percentage of the national budget had decreased to 11.2% from 25.4% In 2003.26 the nature of development assistance has changed a lot over ...

Myanmar has recently seen economic growth, especially in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, service and sales, and craft and related trade. The labour force is primarily male, with 77.1% of working age men participating in The labour force in 2017, compared to 54.3% of women.88 However, participation ...

Deforestation has been one of the most significant changes the Cambodian landscape has undergone in recent decades. Key drivers of this process have been land concessions and subsequent land conversion, and large-scale illegal logging. ...

Vietnam’s civil society and ethnic minoritiesintroductionin Vietnam, ethnic minorities are supported by a network of non-governmental organizations, known as “civil society”. Civil society includes international non-governmental organizations (inGOs), Vietnamese mass organizations, Vietnamese umbrella organizations, Vietnamese NGOs (VNGOs), community-based organizations (CBOs), and professional organizations, although professional ...

Over the last two decades, the countries of the Lower Mekong Basin have all experienced economic development and social transformation. While results are encouraging over all, the improvements across development indicators are not always equal, and as the disparity between the growing urban classes and ...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as The Global Goals, are universal targets designed to end poverty, protect The planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity in each UN member state by 2030. They are intended to continue The progress made ...

Myanmar has historically been an agrarian society, meaning that agriculture the agriculture sector accounts for the majority of the country’s economic output.  the 2003 Myanmar Agricultural Census showed that there were about 3.46 million farm families, cultivating about 8.7 million hectares of land.210 the estimated annual ...

The Government of Vietnam considers forests an important ecological resource, valuable for The socio-economic development and well-being of communities throughout The country. Forests play a major role in adapting to climate change as well as in regular environmental functions such as preventing erosion and maintaining ...

Climate Change (CC) is the change in weather, and related patterns of oceans, land, surface, and ice sheets such as temperature, ice melt, and sea level rise. While CC has historically been a natural occurrence, current CC is believed to be caused by human activities ...

Laos’ total population was estimated by the United Nations Population Fund at 6.9 million in 2017, with an annual population growth of 1.3 percent.421the last formal census was carried out in 2015. All the data referenced here is from the official 2015 Census of Population ...

As the most developed countries in the region, Thailand and Vietnam lead the Lower Mekong in their adoption, accessibility and investment in science and technology. Thailand is also the only Lower Mekong country to rank on UNESCO’s Atlas of research and experimental development. While all ...

The National Targeted Program on New Rural Development – 10 years review and way forwardIntroductionIn Vietnam, rural development is nearly synonymous with agricultural sector development. Agriculture itself is crucial In Vietnamese policy, as it forms The backbone of The country’s economy. Thus, rural development has ...

Though agriculture is still the largest employer in all Lower Mekong countries, the share of the agricultural sector has fallen by 20 percent in the past two decades in Vietnam and Thailand, which have seen steady advances by the service sector. Similarly in Cambodia, growth ...

Khmer people make up 90% of the Cambodian population, followed by Vietnamese (5%), with the balance being Chinese, Cham (mostly a muslim people) and indigenous ethnic groups sometimes called Khmer Loeu. 505the 1998 Cambodian population census identified 17 different indigenous peoples, but the consensus today is ...

Forests and the forestry sector are linked to many aspects of the people and politics of the Lower Mekong Basin. in the current political and economical climates, the status of forests in the LMB is centered around governance, definitions, biodiversity, timber sector and production, forest ...

Inadequate Infrastructure is often referred to as a major constraInt on the socio-economic development of Laos. Thus, it has been a major goal of the Lao government to upgrade Infrastructure In lIne with meetIng the UN SustaInable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 9. This goal is associated with developIng built ...

Construction of a laboratory funded by Chinese money. Photo by Michael Coghlan, taken on 10 January 2014. Licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.0China, while once being at odds with the current government, is now Cambodia’s largest development partner. the two nations have grown increasingly close in recent ...