Areas of interest and work
Digital Economy
Digital Value Chains
References Digitizing the value chains Regional Integration and Value Chains Analyzer (RIVA)
Focus Areas
ICT for Development
The special case of Myanmar and key focus areas
15 June 2012: Myanmar, being one of the world’s smallest recipients of international assistance for many years, is a country with immense potential. With tremendous resources; a burgeoning workforce, fertile soils, energy, minerals, and fishery […]
Public Administration
Public Sector Transformation (Reform) in Myanmar (2010)
The objectives of this study are: to do some literature reviews in the area of Myanmar administrative transformation (reform) in the public sector; to identify general aspects of those development, together with other relevant topics; […]
Sustainable Development
Striking lack of progress on environmental SDGs in Asia-Pacific, reveals a new UN report
Bangkok (ESCAP News) – There is overwhelming evidence that the Asia-Pacific region needs to accelerate action on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and substantially reverse current negative trends, especially those which are depleting and degrading […]
Least Developed Countries
Least-Developed Countries Fund
ဖွံ့ဖြိုးမှုအနည်းဆုံးနိုင်ငံများရန်ပုံငွေအဖွဲ့ (LDCF) ကို ၂၀၀၁ခုနှစ်တွင်စတင်တည်ထောင်ခဲ့ပြီး ရာသီဥတုပြောင်းလဲခြင်းဆိုင်ရာကုလသမဂ္ဂမူဘောင်သဘောတူညီချက် (UNFCCC) အရ LDCများ၏လုပ်ငန်းအစီအစဉ်ကိုကူညီရန်တည်ထောင်ခဲ့သည်။ ၎င်းကို Global Environment Facility (GEF)မှလည်ပတ်သည်။ ၂၀၁၁ခုနှစ်၊ အောက်တိုဘာ ၃၁ ရက်အထိနိုင်ငံပေါင်း ၅၁ (LDCs နှင့်ယခင် LDCs များ) သည် NAPAs၊ NAP လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်နှင့် LDC လုပ်ငန်းအစီအစဉ်၏ အစိတ်အပိုင်းများအတွက်ပြင်ဆင်ခြင်းနှင့်အကောင်အထည်ဖော်ခြင်းအတွက် စုစုပေါင်းဒေါ်လာ၁.၄ ဘီလီယံရရှိခဲ့သည်။ Source: http://www.mm2020.org/resources/least-developed-countries-fund/
Financing for Development
SDG Financing in South-East Asia
All South-East Asian countries fully support the Sustainable Development Agenda although the level of progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) varies as they are different with respect to their individual implementation plans and […]
ASEAN
Empowering People and Ensuring Inclusiveness and Equality in ASEAN
ABSTRACT The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is based on a commitment to ‘leave no-one behind’. South-East Asia faces a multitude of challenges from widening development gaps to the rapid ageing of society. Attaining sustainable […]
ICT for Development
World Summit on the Information Society
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was held in two phases. The first phase took place in Geneva hosted by the Government of Switzerland from 10 to 12 December 2003, and the second phase took place in Tunis […]
MSME Development
The implementation of SME development in the rice sector of Myanmar: Empirical research findings
This study has three objectives in assessing the implementation of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) development in the rice sector of Myanmar. This study attempted to (a) assess the current status of SME development in […]
ICT for Development
The Impact of ICT in Trade Facilitation on Businesses in Myanmar
The main goal of the study is to highlight the importance of ICT in trade facilitation to improve business competitiveness at cross-border trade in Myanmar. Specifically, the study identified the following objectives: To create a […]