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Library ResourceJanuary, 1996Cambodia
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Library ResourceJanuary, 1997Cambodia
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Library ResourceRegulationsJanuary, 1997Malaysia
These Regulations provide minor sentence variation in the body text.
Amended by: Environmental Quality (Sewage and Industrial Effluents) (Amendment) Regulations, P (A)398/2000. (2000-10-31)
Amends: Environmental Quality (Sewage and Industrial Effluents) Regulations, 1979. (1979-01-01) -
Library ResourceJanuary, 1997Cambodia, Oceania, Eastern Asia
A recent eighteen-month economic study of the benefits of alternative uses of forest and in Ratanakiri province recommends the exclusion of customary forest land from current and future commercial concessions. The study compares the economic benefits of using forest land in Ratanakiri for the traditional collection of non-timber forest products by ethnic communities, with the benefits of commercial timber harvesting. The main conclusions of the study are that non-timber forest products (NTFP) are worth a lot, much more than previously thought.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 1997Thailand, Eastern Asia, Oceania
Population pressures play less of a role in deforestation than earlier studies of Thailand found. Between 1976 and 1989, Thailand lost 28 percent ofits forest cover. To analyze how road building, population pressure,and geophysical factors affected deforestation in Thailand during that period, Cropper, Griffiths, and Mani develop a model in whichthe amount of land cleared, the number of agricultural households,and the size of the road network are jointly determined.The model assumes that the amount of land cleared reflects an equilibrium in the land market.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 1996Vietnam, Oceania, Eastern Asia
Socialist Republic of Viet Nam is undergoing a process of transformation from a centrally planned economy to a market-oriented economy.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 1996Indonesia, Eastern Asia, Oceania
A recommendation: Indonesia should repeal its export tax on crude palm oil and discontinue buffer stock operations and directed sales from public estates. It is time for Indonesia to complete the evolution from public interventions in the palm oil market to private sector initiative in response to international price signals.Debate on Indonesia's palm oil policy was stimulated by a sharp increase in cooking oil prices in 1994-95 and a resulting increase in the export tax rate on crude palm oil. Palm oil has been one of the fastest growing subsectors in Indonesia.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 1996Indonesia, Eastern Asia, Oceania
Indonesia's cocoa output, produced mainly by smallholders on the island of Sulawesi, increased a phenomenal 26 percent a year (average, compounded) between 1980 and 1994. The government's hands-off policy was an important factor in this rapid expansion of output.This case study of Sulawesi's cocoa market is a counterpoint to investigations of highly regulated markets --- agricultural and otherwise.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchNovember, 1996Myanmar
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 1997Myanmar
RIP: Rest In Pieces"...
On Nov 14th 1996, the Slorc posted a notice at the gate of Kyandaw Cemetery giving relatives one month's notice to move the remains to a new site at Shwe Nyaung-bin, two hours drive from Rangoon.
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