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The Right Infrastructure In The Right Place, At The Right Time, For The Right Reasons
Malaysia
Archived web content
M. Poobalan M. Masilamani, Open Contracting Partnership
2019
In July 2019, MasTeam was successfully shortlisted for the finals of the Taiwan Presidential Hackathon. Our team members from the Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Plan...
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Build Better, Build Right: A New Tool for Sustainable, Climate-Resilient Infrastructure
Global
Archived web content
Gracia Ramirez (CoST Honduras), Open Contracting Partnership
2019
Honduras is one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to the effects of climate change. With rising temperatures, it has borne the brunt of ever more frequent severe weather ...
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Thailand Issues Third COVID-19 Stimulus Package
Thailand
Archived web content
Ayman Falak Medina
2020
On April 7, 2020, the Thai government issued its third stimulus package worth 1.9 trillion baht (US$58 billion) to mitigate the economic impact caused by the COVID-19 outbreak. ...
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Solidarity in precarity: food delivery riders in Thailand’s gig economy
Thailand
Archived web content
New Mandala
2020
A summary of our recent research, originally published on newmandada.org. On-demand food delivery apps are booming in Thailand, where consumption patterns offer a readily fer...
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Informal Workers in Urban Thailand: A Statistical Snapshot
Thailand
Issue and policy briefs
Wissanee Poonsab, the Labour Statistics Group of the National...
2019
The Government of Thailand has put in place programmes that extend social security coverage to workers in the informal economy. Additional legal protections are provided to dome...
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Thailand’s Seafood Slaves: Human Trafficking, Slavery and Murder in Kantang’s Fishing Industry
Thailand
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Environmental Justice Foundation
2015
This report builds on over three years of in-depth research and field investigations to first expose abuse and then critically assess claims that slavery and 'pirate' fishing in...
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‘Whether you go illegally or legally in the end it’s the same, you’re cheated’ - A study of formal and informal recruitment practices of Lao workers migrating to Thailand
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Sosamphanh, Bounthavy, Senedouangdeth, Dexanourath; Phouxay,...
2008
The research presented in this report would not have been possible without the cooperation of numerous individuals, organisations, and companies. The research team is particular...
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Rural-urban migration and employment quality: A case study from Thailand
Thailand
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Amare, Mulubrhan, Asian Development Bank, Hohfeld, Lena;...
2012
This study investigates the effects of rural–urban migration on economic development in Thailand. It draws upon a panel database of 2,000 rural households collected from 2008 to...
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Open for Business: Colombia’s Data-Driven Procurement Reforms Increase Competition
Global
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Open Contracting Partnership
2020
Open contracting helps Colombian governments boost participation & competitive tendering in a market where direct awards are common Urgency for reforms came from high-profile gr...
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Up to 2.7 million Thai travel, hospitality and tourism workers unemployed by September
Thailand
Archived web content
Jack Burton
2020
The president of the Thai Tourism Industry Council says confidence among Thailand’s tourism business operators fell to the lowest level in a decade during the second quarter thi...
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School closures in the Mekong Region
Mekong
September 15, 2020
Source: http://data.uis.unesco.org/#
dataset of school closures in the Mekong Region to September 10, 2020
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Laos kicks off new school year amid effective COVID-19 control
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Archived web content
huaxia
Article from Xinhua Net announcing Laos school reopenings
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The number of flights in 2020 in Vietnam during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Viet Nam
September 15, 2020
Source: https://blogs.worldbank.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has seriously affected the life and economy of global people in general and Vietnam in particular. Its influence is also shown through air travel in Vietna...
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COVID-19 crisis and the informal economy Immediate responses and policy challenges
Global
Issue and policy briefs
International Labour Organisation (ILO)
2020
At the end of April 2020, the number of COVID-19 infections had exceeded 2.8 million cases worldwide, with the death toll nearing 195,000, and 210 countries and territories affe...
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COVID-19 employment and labour market impact in Thailand
Thailand
Issue and policy briefs
International Labour Organisation (ILO)
2020
The COVID-19 related impact on the economy in Thailand through both direct (generated by domestic lockdown) and indirect (supply and demand shocks in supply chains, including to...
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A Guide to The Thai Green Label Scheme
Thailand
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
Thailand Environment Institute
2011
The scheme is developed to promote the concept of resource conservation, pollution reduction, and waste management. The purposes of awarding the green label are: • To provide r...
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Mass unemployment the new normal in SE Asia
Thailand
Archived web content
David Hutt
2020
A new International Labor Organization report suggests that more than one in six young people worldwide has stopped working since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, while the r...
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The percentage of malnourished children under 5 in 2018 by locality
Viet Nam
June 26, 2020
Source: https://www.gso.gov.vn/default.aspx?tabid=723
The percentage of malnourished children under 5 in 2018 by locality was assessed according to criteria of weight, height and height according to height. Unit of calculation is t...
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Synthesis Report: Ten Groups of Indigenous Peoples in Thailand
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Ten Indigenous Groups in Thailand
Thailand
September 11, 2020
Source:
Ten indigenous groups have faced challenges about civil rights, land rights and access to resources, and identical rights for social acceptance and inclusion.